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For my child, today, it is so easy
to make the awful discovery, that people kill
and are killed: both things and people
speak the language of the red angel.
My child asks me: Why are people being…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1930s
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Manke:Wait, let’s signal Rivkele quietly. [Basha and Reyzl exit. Manke takes a stick and very softly taps a corner of the ceiling. We can hear the girls outside hopping around in the puddles, taking…
Contributor:
Sholem Asch
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1907
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He looked, and there was a well in the field, and there were three flocks of sheep lying down by it, for from that well the flocks were watered. But the stone was large on the mouth of the well. When…
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Sefat Emet (Judah Leib Alter)
Places:
Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
1905
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My childhood, if we’re speaking of relations at home, was exceptionally easy; I never felt a need to rebel against my parents’ conservatism. I encountered no gates to break through—they were all…
Contributor:
Artur Sandauer
Places:
Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1963
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Passover is coming soon and I ask you to invite me to the seder. Let me in!I won’t cost you very much. I don’t eat kneydlekh! Don’t serve me maror, the bitter herbs—I was born with them!Do not ask me…
Contributor:
David Pinski, Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1895