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Manke:Wait, let’s signal Rivkele quietly. [Basha and Reyzl exit. Manke takes a stick and very softly taps a corner of the ceiling. We can hear the girls outside hopping around in the puddles, taking…
Contributor:
Sholem Asch
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1907
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[Curtain]Narrator [entering and about to speak when he hears voices behind the scrim. Walking over, he peers through an opening in it]:How they weep, how they mourn,The wind-borne dead!No new…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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If one looks closely at the passers-by in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto one can see that the overwhelming majority of them are not originally from Warsaw, but are from…
Contributor:
Abraham Lewin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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Even though the town has a well right in the middle of the marketplace, many of its finest people use river water that they have to carry from the edge of the town half a mile away. The river water is…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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Before the war Bloyne was a rich and elegant Jewish town: wide streets, a large municipal park, several monuments, many tall buildings, large stores. But when the war came through, the town was…
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S. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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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…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1929