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What Is a Pinkes?
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I remember hearing the word pinkes several times when I was a small child. For instance, when an unusual event took place in town…

Contributor:

Leybl Shiter

Places:

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date:

1951

Subjects:

Memory, Burial society, Anthologies, Community, Education

Categories:

History, Anthologies, Firsthand Accounts
My First Day in the Twentieth Century
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The truth, the mathematical truth, is that a new century begins on January 1 of the year one of the new hundred-year time span. But it is the custom to celebrate a new century on January 1 of the last…

Contributor:

Melekh Ravitch

Places:

Montreal, Canada

Date:

1962

Subjects:

Time, Adolescence, Education, Family, Memory

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries