Showing Results 1 - 10 of 35
Restricted
Text
Jewish humor of recent generations, in all its manifestations—jokes, puns, witticisms, and anecdotes—has found patrons within Our Language [a Hebrew-language periodical] and already…
Contributor:
Dov Sadan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
A people that forgets its dead is condemned to decay—Jules Guesde
We will never forget our dead. They still live among us and in our thoughts.
For that reason, immediately after the Liberation, we…
Contributor:
Dovid Diamant
Places:
Date:
1946
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Among the illegal publications that appeared in Poland during the Nazi occupation, one can find a small anthology of poems entitled Z otchlani, from the Abyss. This modest volume, published by the…
Contributor:
Michal Borwicz
Places:
Kraków, Republic of Poland
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1947
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
At the beginning of the present century a whole constellation of Jewish composers and musicians studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under the beneficial influence of Rimski…
Contributor:
Moisei Beregovskii
Date:
1962
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I remember hearing the word pinkes several times when I was a small child.
For instance, when an unusual event took place in town…
Contributor:
Leybl Shiter
Date:
1951
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Why do I begin with the parachutists? Were I to trace the story of Jewish resistance and rescue chronologically, I would have to use a different order. I would have to begin with the gradual…
Contributor:
Marie Syrkin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Perhaps the most difficult question we have been asked in the course of compiling this catalog has been, “What exactly is it?” Having realized quite early that there are no preexisting…
Contributor:
The Jewish Catalog
Date:
1973
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The Book of the Ghetto Wars is intended to bring together a selection of the materials in our possession—testimony, journals and notes, documents, studies, poems, and stories—that were created during…
Contributor:
Antek Zuckerman, Moshe Basok
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1954
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The German occupation with its huge system of ghettos, concentration camps, death camps, and more cannot be represented in a normal human tongue. No depictions, documents, and images can…
Contributor:
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1947
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
One must hurry to grasp it; yesterday, it did not exist; tomorrow it will be no more. Yesterday there were Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccans, discovered by…
Contributor:
Henri Chemouilli
Date:
1972