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What a Decade! 1914–1924
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Nineteen nineteen was one of the most difficult years for the Bolsheviks. The civil war flared up in every corner of Russia. In Ukraine, Petliura, Grigoriev, Denikin…

Contributor:

Daniel Charney

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Wilno, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Warszawa, France

Date:

Late 1930s

Subjects:

Communism, Politics, Writing

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing
Collection of Yiddish Stories from Southern Germany
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This page is from a manuscript containing stories in Yiddish. It was copied and illustrated in Tannhausen, Germany between 1580 and 1600, for the Ulma family, who owned a number of important…

Contributor:

Isaac bar Yuda Reutlingen

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

1580–1600

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Yiddish, Writing, Women, Children

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page with Yiddish text and a small drawing in the middle of the right side depicting a queen kneeling before a king, a burning fire behind her, and two infants on the ground before her.