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In Winter Evenings
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From the top of a spire’s tower A ringing’s heard—once. Again. In the chasms of night and land of snow A little village sunken low. Overnight, human isles of rest Warmed by the straw. Close with…

Contributor:

Dovid Hofshteyn

Places:

Russian Empire (Ukraine, Ukraine)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Naturalism, Time, Shtetl, Sabbath, Family, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
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