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Reb Shmelke:
Well, I can see that you are a clever man, so I will tell you the whole story in brief. [He takes a drink.] As you see me before you, I’m called Reb Smelke [Shmelke, as pronounced by a…
Contributor:
Solomon Ettinger
Places:
Zamość, Russian Empire (Zamość, Poland)
Date:
1839
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“People generally say: the Torah before anything else. I, however, would say: Jews are holy, and they come first.” [Seder Eliyahu Rabba 14.2]This is the history of how Jewish thinking became enslaved…
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Ya‘akov Ze’ev Latski-Bertholdi
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1914