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Fishke started to narrate in his lisping, stammering way.
“You seem to know I married the blind orphan girl, and after the wedding we lived well, like a Jewish couple should. I think I kept my part of…
Contributor:
Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
Places:
Berdichev, Russian Empire (Berdychiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1869
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The synagogues where older and more modest congregants pray are spared to some extent. It is a good thing that they are closed all day and all night and are opened only for early morning prayers and…
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A. Grodner
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1866
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Hebrew:Woe be to me, in my old age,That it should have to come to this:That I stand in judgment hereWith a shameless servant girlAnd her vulgar band of friends.No one knows me anymore!Yiddish:Oh…
Contributor:
Di bin (The Bee)
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1906
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Cover of Der groyser kundes: A zhurnal far humor, vitz un satire (July 12, 1912), with a cartoon by Lola (Leon Israel). Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson is portrayed as Delilah, cutting off the…
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Lola (Leon Israel)
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912