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Three Idlers [finish chanting]:Why, oh why,Did the soul descendFrom the highest heightTo the deepest end?The greatest fallContains the upward flight.[A long pause. All three sit motionless, lost in…
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S. An-ski
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Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1913–1917
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A calm summer night. On the horizon loom, very black, the famous woods on the tree trunks of which our ancestors are said to have carved a record of the tractates of the Talmud they had…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Tomaszow, Russian Empire (Tomaszów County, Poland)
Date:
1890
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You understand, my sweet confessor, that I could be even more of a sinner than not, and I hope just the same for your absolution. In the meantime, I will tell you that after…
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Ettore Schmitz
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Trieste, Kingdom of Italy (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1896
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Sinyor Moshe Weinstein, who has recently returned from Chile, a free republic in South America, relates upsetting things about the Jews of this country.
The number of Jews residing in Chile barely…
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Unknown
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Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Date:
1903
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This book tells a true story. In it, what was probably the strangest youth who ever lived, shall speak with its own voice. This life needs to be believed, as strange as it may seem. But strangeness…
Contributor:
Karl M. Baer
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1907
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On August 20, 1906, the settlers of the Jewish Colonization Association, meeting in the town of Basavilbaso, Lucienville Colony…
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J. M. Salva
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Basavilbaso, Uruguay
Date:
1908
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You have a simplistic picture of a pogrom. A well-off and respected shopkeeper lives a proud and happy life. All at once, angels of destruction pop out of nowhere and within minutes they…
Contributor:
Alexander Kapel
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911
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Twelve-year old Ivan Demitrov, a fourth-grade student in the Bulgarian school, was scolded by his Bulgarian teacher for not sitting still in school on Friday, the tenth of this month. After playing in…
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Joseph Barishac
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Edirne, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1912
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Even though the town has a well right in the middle of the marketplace, many of its finest people use river water that they have to carry from the edge of the town half a mile away. The river water is…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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All things I can endure, save one.
The bare, blank room where is no sun;
The parcelled hours; the pallet hard;
The dreary faces here within;
The outer women’s cold regard;
The Pastor’s iterated “sin”…
Contributor:
Amy Levy
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1884