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The Hit of the Century
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The Jewish theme in Ru.Shtetl is a metaphor. The closest mainstream parallel explaining the essence of what Patrick Lisidze conceived of is Siniavskii’s pseudonym, Abram Terts. Terts’s Jewishness was…

Contributor:

Psoy Korolenko

Places:

Moscow, Russia

Date:

2003

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Shtetl, Modernity, Jewish identity, Language & Linguistics, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Language & Linguistics
Encounter
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Morning flew by in the usual way, Up and down streets, it raced, Unwinding the spring of an ongoing watch That the night would wind up again. A coat was fastened over the chest With a clasp and a…

Contributor:

Elizaveta Polonskaya

Places:

Leningrad, USSR (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1927

Subjects:

Poverty, Women, Body image, Yiddish, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
All of the Books That Have Arrived at the Editor’s Desk
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    Future [Tsukunft], first compilation. Published by Tsukunft, St. Petersburg (1913). Ben-Ami, Big Fayvl and Little Fayvl (a short story). Published by Far undzere kinder…

Contributor:

Boris Kletzkin

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Writing, Yiddish, Jewish languages, Poetry, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Lists & catalogues