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Buy Cigarettes!
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Cigarettes! Cigarettes! My voice rings through the streets With eyes overcast, cloudy— Buy! Buy! Buy! Hunting foxes—Cossacks ride— With horseshoes like scythes— And cut down sounds like sheaves: Buy…

Contributor:

Malka Lee

Places:

New York City, United States of America

Date:

1925–1926

Subjects:

Economic life, Women, Gender, Violence, Sexual violence

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
The Women Shopkeepers, or, Golde-Mine, the Abandoned Wife of Brod
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In short, in addition to being affluent, our Reb Hoshea Heffler was also steeped in the holy books. He was a traditional Jew, who could not abide the maskilim, the enlightened ones. He always used to…

Contributor:

Isaac Meyer Dik

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1865

Subjects:

Enlightenment, Economic life, Gender, Adultery, Agunah

Categories:

Literature, Fiction