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Chanukah in the Ghetto
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“The living faith has vanished. . . . All that remains is poetry!” A superficial observer of life in the ghetto might come to more or less the same conclusion about the way…

Contributor:

Oskar Rosenfeld

Places:

Litzmannstadt, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Hanukkah, Holidays, Jewish quarters, Holocaust, War, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Historical writing
Purim Scroll
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May this be written for a coming generation, that people yet to be created will praise Jah. For the signs and wonders that the most high God has performed for us, I am pleased to relate: Know that in…

Contributor:

Elijah Capsali

Places:

Candia, Venice (Heraklion, Greece)

Date:

1538

Subjects:

Holidays, Tishah be-Av, Fasting, Jewish quarters, Miracles

Categories:

Historical writing