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The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third
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“Hey, hey, out of my way!” shouted a driver from the seat of his coach as he nearly ran into two women standing in the middle of the busiest street in Glupsk, both carrying…

Contributor:

Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)

Places:

Žitómir, Russian Empire (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)

Date:

1878

Subjects:

Humor, Rural life, Women, Community, Yiddish

Categories:

Historical writing, Humor & Satire
My Dear Shtetl Motele
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A. Grandma Rekhl—my mother’s mother, whose name the members of the household and the people of the town all pronounced with exactness: Rekhl precisely with an “e,”…

Contributor:

Ḥayim Tchemerinsky

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Shtetl, Family, Women, Yiddish, Gender

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries