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Impressions of a Journey
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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…

Contributor:

Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Tomaszow, Russian Empire (Tomaszów County, Poland)

Date:

1890

Subjects:

Travel, Jewish identity, Rural life, Mental illness, Allegory

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Travel Writing
Simkhe Platke, or the Universal Swindler
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Now in that same shtetl there lived a youth named Shimen, but he was nicknamed Simkhe (joy, celebration) and Plakhte (coarse cloth) because he was barefoot and almost naked and that was all he wore…

Contributor:

Yankev Morgenshtern

Places:

Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1870s or 1880s

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Folklore, Shtetl, Rural life, Morality

Categories:

Literature, Fiction, Folklore