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Among the Breslover Hasidim
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If a visitor to Berditchev wishes to hear a typical Jewish melody, let him listen to Reb Nisson Belzer’s protégé. If it is Berditchever Chassidic song he desires, he should go to the Karliner shtibel…

Contributor:

Hillel Zeitlin

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Piety, Class, Shtetl, Jewish identity, Hasidism

Categories:

Literature, Reportage
Account of His Visit to Lublin
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I was privileged to visit Lublin with my late father when I was a boy of nine, and I saw his [the Seer’s] face illuminated like torches. And when he opened the door to recite Ke-gavnah [An Aramaic…

Contributor:

Isaac Judah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno

Places:

Komarno, Austrian Empire (Komarno, Ukraine)

Date:

1815

Subjects:

Hasidism, Mysticism, Piety, Prayer

Categories:

Magic & Mysticism, Mystical Texts, Firsthand Accounts, Reportage