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“The living faith has vanished. . . . All that remains is poetry!” A superficial observer of life in the ghetto might come to more or less the same conclusion about the way…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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Our God is one. You are my God: Hallelujah!
Who created me, body and soul: Hallelujah!
You created Heaven and earth: Hallelujah!
We will praise You forever: Hallelujah!
You…
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Rebecca Tiktiner
Places:
Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)
Prague, Czech Republic
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century
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Riboyne shel oylem, Almighty God, You created heaven and earth and all creatures with great compassion within six days and with only ten words. And on the seventh day, which is shabes koydesh, You…
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Leah Horowitz
Places:
Glogau, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Głogów, Poland)
Date:
Mid–18th Century
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[In the royal palace. In the background stands the throne; on it sits the royal couple. To the left of the throne stand Klemens and the ladies of the court; to the right Count Lubecki and the…
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Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1896
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Once again, following our custom of addressing readers [of the weekly journal Jutrzenka (Dawn), April 3, 1863] in view of the upcoming celebrations, we open the book of books, our holy Torah, in order…
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Daniel Neufeld
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1863
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And in it they will find a commentary appropriate to everyone and in it many precious midrashim, sharp pilpulim, light and weighty, Sinai and uprooter of mountains (Berakhot 64a, that is both breadth…
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Nathan Hannover
Places:
Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1652
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Every woman is obligated to kindle lights on the eve of each Sabbath and Festival and this is a great mitzvah. And she makes the blessing, “Blessed are You God, our Lord, King of the universe. Who has…
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Benjamin Slonik
Places:
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)
Date:
1577
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Passover is coming soon and I ask you to invite me to the seder. Let me in!I won’t cost you very much. I don’t eat kneydlekh! Don’t serve me maror, the bitter herbs—I was born with them!Do not ask me…
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David Pinski, Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1895
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Indeed, at a time when Israel was settled on their soil, in the land of Israel, the agricultural dimension of the holidays, their relation to the field, that is to say, their material aspect, was a…
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Aaron Samuel Tamares
Places:
Milejczyce, Russian Empire (Milejczyce, Poland)
Date:
1911–1912