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Satan in Goray
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It was Rabbi Benish’s practice to say his afternoon and evening prayers by himself in his study. When the news reached his ears he hurried to the prayer house. But it…

Contributor:

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1935

Subjects:

Sex, Rabbis, Violence, Sabbatianism, Women

Categories:

Literature, Fiction
We’re Laughing Our Heads Off
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We’re laughing our heads off: None of us wears a top-hat We just go around with heads—or without heads— But the Rabbi of Uman Holds up a mirror to the sun. We laugh our heads off When a gang comes…

Contributor:

Leyb Kvitko

Places:

Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1923

Subjects:

Rabbis, Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Violence, Hasidism

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
The Book of Jerusalem Journeys
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In 1930, Chaim Elazar Shapiro (Spira), the Hasidic rebbe of Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (today, Mukachevo, Ukraine), traveled by rail to Vienna and Trieste and by ship to Alexandria, where he and his…

Contributor:

Moshe Goldstein

Places:

Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)

Date:

1930

Subjects:

Lag b’Omer, Mourning, Rabbis, Zionism, Violence

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Travel Writing, Memoirs & Diaries
A Story of What Happened to Rav Moshe Danon and the Elders of the Jewish Community of Sarajevo on 20 October 1819
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Let us recount a story of the old days, of what happened to a great man who lived then. He was our Rav Danon, may his name endure forever. We will not forget him ever, We will extol him before God, f…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Date:

ca. 1820

Subjects:

Rabbis, Muslim-Jewish relations, Finance, Violence

Categories:

Literature, Poetry