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At midnight a soft hand touched me: “Get up.” I stepped outside the silent sleeping barracks and saw: Azrael, the angel who reigns over the dead rushed down from the night firmament, all revenge…
Contributor:
Arnold Zweig
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France, France
Date:
1916
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This story admittedly took place a long time ago and furthermore in a far-off land—in England, in fact. Yet in spite of everything, it is still important and worthy of being…
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Isaac Meyer Dik
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1889
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There’s a fire in the hearth
Warm and cozy as it gets
The rebbe teaches children
The Hebrew alphabet
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Mark Varshavsky
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1900
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Along the quay, near the White Tower, there is a café where two young Jewish girls from Salonica sing every day, including Shabbat. In truth we do not find their behavior as low as that of other young…
Contributor:
Yeremiah (El Yoron)
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1900
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Subscription for the Year 1903 to the First Daily Zhargon (Yiddish) Newspaper in Russia, Der frayndPublished in Saint Petersburg by Sh. Ginzburg and Sh. Rapaport [S. An-ski]
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Shaul Ginsburg
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1903
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Dear readers! I am giving you a rare and precious treasure, which has hitherto been lying in a library for three hundred years. Jews have always been thinking and talking about this treasure…
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Yudl Rosenberg
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909
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Uptown, at 9th Avenue and 155th St., stands the famous field—the Polo Grounds. Every afternoon, 20,000–35,000 people gather there. The entrance fee is from $0.50–1.50. Thousands of poor boys and older…
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1909
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Louis Gilrod, David Meyerowitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911
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I have noticed the change of the word “Oriental” to “Sephardi” in the masthead of the latest issue of the journal [La Amerika], “Organ of the Judeo-Sephardi (and no longer Oriental) Colony of America…
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Ben-Sion Behar
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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The “kindergarten” as a corridor to the salon of education, as a foundation for the tower of learning, has received particular attention among all civilized peoples, and all the more so does it…
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Yitsḥak Alterman
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917