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Life in a Hasidic Court in Russian Poland toward the End of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries
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Rumors of my grandfather’s plan to depart for Palestine reached his wife and children shortly after the Russian revolution of 1905. [ . . . ] The…

Contributor:

Ita Kalish

Places:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

1965

Subjects:

Hasidism, Family, Aliyah, Holocaust, Nazis

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Religion & Theology
Letter to Zalman Shneour: On Children’s Education
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Why should I write to you about myself? Nothing has happened in the meantime in my personal life. My son is still with me, as before. He is still an Extern. He knows the gymnasium [university…

Contributor:

Yehoshu‘a Ḥana Ravnitski

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Children, Jewish identity, Education, Family, Holidays

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Religion & Theology