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The Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories), a collection of more than two hundred and fifty stories in Yiddish, was popular among Jews in Western and Eastern Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth…
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Unknown
Places:
Rovere, Venice (Roverè Veronese, Italy)
Date:
1585–1590
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Title page of the first known printed version of the Ku-bukh (Cow Book), a sixteenth-century collection of Yiddish fables, published in Verona, Italy in 1595. The later compendium of Yiddish stories…
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Verona, Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
1595
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Soyer’s informal family portrait, Dancing Lesson, has become an iconic image of the American Jewish experience, appearing on many book covers and exhibition catalogs. It was painted about thirteen…
Contributor:
Raphael Soyer
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1926
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And around us loomed the mountains, various heights, various shapes, squeezed together or clambering atop one another. Some were terrifying with their rugged lines, some were soft and delicate like a…
Contributor:
Hersh Dovid Nomberg
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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To make chocolate, coffee, and milk you will need the following utensils:
A pan, galvanized on the inside, or a saucepan made of coarse tinned zinc with two iron…
Contributor:
Ephraim Raskin
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1912
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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