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In the year 5594 (1834) it was the Ninth of Av, the holy day commemorating the Destruction of the Temple. In the morning, when the worshipers were lamenting at the…
Contributor:
Isaac Meyer Dik
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1868
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If my father had been able to foresee even a thousandth part of the trials I was to endure he might have been rather less ardent on the night my mother conceived me. . . . Now, of…
Contributor:
Isaac Joel Linetski
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1867–1869
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Humor—is a Jewish thing. What Jew doesn’t enjoy listening to a nice story, parable, or witticism? When is a Jew indisposed to joking around? Not due to great luxury, God forbid, but on the contrary…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1892
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“Hey, hey, out of my way!” shouted a driver from the seat of his coach as he nearly ran into two women standing in the middle of the busiest street in Glupsk, both carrying…
Contributor:
Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
Places:
Žitómir, Russian Empire
(Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1878
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Hebrew:Woe be to me, in my old age,
That it should have to come to this:
That I stand in judgment here
With a shameless servant girl
And her vulgar band of friends.
No one knows me anymore!
Yiddish:O…
Contributor:
“Eliyahu”
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1906