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A Soviet Shtetl
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Like every shtetl Medzibosz has a main street, and side streets and back streets. Nowadays the old hunched little huts have mostly vanished, and there are new houses in their place—not everywhere. Thi…

Contributor:

Shmuel Gordon

Places:

Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1966

Subjects:

Shtetl, Cities, Social justice, Poverty, Modernity, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
A Bintel Brief
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Dear Editor,I am a Russian revolutionist and a freethinker. Here in America I became acquainted with a girl who is also a freethinker. We decided to marry, but the problem is that she has Orthodox…

Contributor:

The Forward

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1906

Subjects:

Marriage, Orthodox Judaism, Secular Judaism, Family, Modernity, Journalism, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Letters