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Goyim in the Ghetto
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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…

Contributor:

Peretz Opoczynski

Places:

Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1941

Subjects:

Christian-Jewish relations, Jewish quarters, Antisemitism, Nazis, Jewish identity, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
Silliness and Sanctimony
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Yetkhen:And how crude he was with me! He wants to arrange with Papa to marry me! How do you like that? I’d like to meet the man who’ll force me to marry someone! No! No father can do that—I have…

Contributor:

Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn

Places:

Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (Wrocław, Poland)

Date:

1796

Subjects:

Betrothal, Women, Family, Christian-Jewish relations, Love, Performing arts

Categories:

Theater/Drama
Shayke
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Once this was the heart of Warsaw—this labyrinth of sad narrow streets between tall tenement houses. Now this is a remote place, an ancient tumor on the body of the modern city, where its blood flows…

Contributor:

Alter-Sholem Kacyzne

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1929

Subjects:

Labor, Cities, Poetry, Christian-Jewish relations, Poets, Fiction, Folklore

Categories:

Fiction, Folklore
I Speak to You Openly, My Child
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(Short Poems in Prose)

Contributor:

Yosef Kirman

Places:

Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Parenthood, Christian-Jewish relations, Food and drink, Animals, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry