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Fishke the Lame
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Fishke started to narrate in his lisping, stammering way. “You seem to know I married the blind orphan girl, and after the wedding we lived well, like a Jewish couple should. I think I kept my part of…

Contributor:

Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)

Places:

Berdichev, Russian Empire (Berdychiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1869

Subjects:

Scholarship, Marriage, Economic life, Humor, Yiddish

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Literature, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts
Tsemaḥ David (The Sprout of David)
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Thus spoke David, son of Isaac, son of Eliezer, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, son of Menahem, son of Isaac, son of Obadiah, son of Isaac—known as “the wealthy one”—son of Elijah, known as “the holy…

Contributor:

David de Pomis

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1587

Subjects:

Violence, Education, Philosophy, Antisemitism, Marriage

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, History, Historical Writing