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On the night of Simhat Torah 5575 [1814], the Seer closeted himself in his room on the second story of his home. The one window overlooking the wide Jewish street was open; it was very near to the…
Contributor:
Alexander Zederbaum
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1867
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Murray:People fall into two distinct categories. Miss Markowitz; people who like delicatessen, and people who don’t like delicatessen. A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot…
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Herb Gardner
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1962
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[ . . . ] Let us return to my maternal grandmother, Matte, of blessed memory. After she married off my late aunt Ulk, she was left penniless with the fatherless child my mother, may she live…
Contributor:
Glikl bas Leyb Hamel
Places:
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1719
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At the time for words, father, my adonai, leave it in my hands, the
shame that I don’t feel, and assign to me the job of justification,
what they call history.
The fact is that every land has its…
Contributor:
Luisa Futoransky
Places:
Rome, Italy
Date:
1972