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A Mirror on a Stone: The Poetry and Prose of Twelve Martyred Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union
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The criterion for the selection of works to be included in the anthology was above all their lasting literary and artistic value, though here and there poems and short stories were…

Contributor:

Khone Shmeruk

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1964

Subjects:

Writing, Pogroms, Communism, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

History, Anthologies, Literature
One Literature in Two Languages
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Some impassioned readers among us will not admit that our one and only literature has a double language. After the Czernowitz conference, one of our Hebrew writers (now living in America) swore…

Contributor:

Bal-Makhshoves

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Writing, Yiddish, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & Philosophy
Who Is Vildman the Wrestler?
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Among the wrestlers competing in the current tournament in the Panorama [Building] on Karowa Street, fighting for the 1912 Polish Championship, is a Jew called Vildman.He has become quite famous, in…

Contributor:

Menachem Kipnis

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Sports, Writing, Leisure, Jewish identity, Community

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Journalism