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From Volozhin to Jerusalem
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Even in the past, some thirty to forty years ago, when Jewish life in Russia was still very conservative, there was a difference between those cities and towns located…

Contributor:

Meir Berlin

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1933

Subjects:

Assimilation, Enlightenment, Holidays, Rabbis, Education

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Historical writing
Dreaming of Junk Food
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Leehee woke me up at a quarter of four in the afternoon and asked me to come with them to Ein Hod for the Seder, despite everything. “Don’t do this to me,” I said. “You know I’m not…

Contributor:

Itamar Ben-Canaan

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Date:

2001

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Secular Judaism, Assimilation, Music, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Memoirs & diaries, (Auto)biography