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Lament of the Daughter of Judah
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O Russians, you who love your fellow men! You would shudder from the bottoms of your kind hearts if you saw the effect of that terrible accusation which Jews who were eyewitnesses to the unjustified…

Contributor:

Lev Nevakhovich

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1803

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Violence, Enlightenment, Christian-Jewish relations, Emancipation

Categories:

Political Culture, Poetry
Victim Testimonies of the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom
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[This testimony was] given by rape victim Rivke Shif. She is the wife of Shabse Shif, a shoemaker specializing in shoe uppers. (He lived at 11…

Contributor:

Chaim Nahman Bialik

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Pogroms, Violence, Sexual violence, Antisemitism, Sexism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
An Answer to the Slav
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I hesitate to sound immodest, So I must warn you in advance, If you will listen now in earnest, Then please excuse my stance. More startling than other words, And I will use this…

Contributor:

Reuben Kulisher

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1849

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Nationalism, War, Violence, Enlightenment

Categories:

Political Culture, Poetry, Popular Poetry