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It was Shabbat morning. I was still lying in bed. My mother was already up and awake, wearing her clean white headdress. The other bed opposite mine, where my mother would sleep, was already made…
Contributor:
Isaac Meir Weissenberg
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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His strong, coal-black hands crumpling and twisting his faded old hat, the thirty-year-old Adoons said in a quiet but firm voice to his employer, Mr. Waldman, the produce dealer,
“Baas, I’m finishing…
Contributor:
Morris Hoffman
Places:
Little Karoo, Union of South Africa (Little Karoo, South Africa)
Date:
ca. 1920
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Hannah the blind woman was told before her wedding that her future husband was a widower in the tobacco business; at first they also assured her that this widower had been left with no children from…
Contributor:
Jacob Steinberg
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1922
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At three in the morning, Rabbi Sholem Tuvim returned home from visiting his sick father. His father was in great need of comfort, and he, Reb Sholem, would have stayed by him the entire night if the…
Contributor:
Joseph Opatoshu
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1928
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Bernardo Tzalkin stood there as though he had just been drenched with a bucket of cold water. Perplexed, at a loss for words, he tried to ask the doctor whether the boy could possibly get out of bed…
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Salomón Zytner
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1955