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Khaye-Gite came. She is a typical grandmother. She talks to God quietly, politely. She wasn’t too keen on telling us about being a grandmother. She just told us a few things. She knows lots…
Contributor:
S. An-ski
Places:
Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1912–1913
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This is how things go with your average Jew. But Hershele is not your average Jew. It wasn’t by chance that he was famous in all of Ostropol, in all of Berdichev, and in all of Vilyuisk.
Hershele…
Contributor:
Isaac Babel
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1918
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There is no need to provide evidence concerning the great value of folk songs when one wishes to study the history of a people—any people—and all it has undergone. Alongside the history books of each…
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Shaul Ginsburg, Peysakh Marek
Places:
Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1898
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[Gordon and Zhivago were on their way home in the evening. The sun was going down.] In one village [they passed through] they saw a young Cossack surrounded by a crowd…
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Boris Pasternak
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Peredelkino, USSR (Novo-Peredelkino, Russia)
Date:
1956
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With good reason the Jewish people have earned the highest title to which a nation can aspire, the honor of being called The People of the Book [Am ha-seyfer]. “Der Seyfer,” the book, has…
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S. An-ski
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1914