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For two months, enfolded from head to foot in crusted, freezing snow, we lay in the trenches on the Polish–Bolshevik front in White Russia. We lay about sleepily, suffering from fatigue, immobility…
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Yisroel Rabon
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Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1928
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Aunt Feiga is making jam today. She has to hurry. The raspberry season will soon be over. So Aunt Feiga is all in a swivet; she has bought a huge bowl of raspberries and fifteen pounds of sugar and is…
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Zalman Shneour
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1929
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I know a town in White Russia [Belarus] on the River Dnieper. Its name is Shklov. I was born there, went to heder there, which is why I know it so well.
The flame of life burns calmly…
Contributor:
Zalman Shneour
Places:
Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1929
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On his way home Gurdweill tried without success to find the reason for Lotte’s strange behaviour. He went over everything he had said in her house in his mind: there was nothing that could have…
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David Vogel
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1929
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Signs of the new life and of the new “construction” in Trostinets can be discerned, strange as it may sound, in the destruction of the synagogues…
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M. Osherovich
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1933
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[ . . . ] In the early autumn of 1918 we entered a new circle of Bolshevik hell, the period of mass Red Terror. The murder of Uritskii and…
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Simon Dubnov
Places:
Riga, Latvia
Date:
1934–1935
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This book will discuss the people of Israel (the name by which the Jewish people were known), showing the history of their joys and…
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N. M. Nikolskii
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Smolensk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Smolensk, Russia)
Date:
1920
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For Jews, social hygiene embraces the entire domain of religious laws and customs of Judaism on maintaining the purity and health of the body. These traditions partially, and certainly at their core…
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Felix Theilhaber
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1927–1930
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The history of the Jews in the last century and a half has turned about one central fact: that of Emancipation. But what has Emancipation really meant to the Jew? The generally accepted view has it…
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Salo W. Baron
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1928
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Hebrew reborn—but, was it ever dead? Or, if it was, how can a dead language be born again?
The millions of Jews all over the world who say their daily prayers in Hebrew, not only understanding but…
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Shalom Spiegel
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1930