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Memoirs
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For the two reasons specified below, I have given myself the surname “Wasserzug”; the first reason is that when I was five or six years of age, I was playing with some young children, I believe, in a…

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Moses Wasserzug

Places:

Płock, Kingdom of Prussia (Płock, Poland)

Date:

ca. 1820

Subjects:

Adolescence, Family, Education, Charity, Economic life

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & Diaries
Takkanot (Regulations)
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18 Elul 5502 [1742]

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The Jewish Community of Tykocin

Places:

Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)

Date:

1742

Subjects:

Government, Leadership, Communal organizations, Charity, Sabbath

Categories:

Law, Legal Codes
Sketches from Krochmalna Street: “The Charity Lady”
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Along Krochmalna Street, placing her feet shod in elegant, light-colored boots carefully amid the muddy puddles, stepping aside at every moment so as not to stain her clothing against the greasy…

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Czesława Endelmanowa

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Charity, Social welfare, Women, Poverty

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Literature, Fiction