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The small town resounded with whistling and shouting. The smell of stewing, the smell of frying, the smell of boiling.
Mr. Dykhes had sold all his defective soap to the army.
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Contributor:
Boris Yampolski
Places:
USSR (Russia)
Date:
1940
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Tirzeh rose early the following morning, cooked some schav, beat in several eggs, boiled a pot of potatoes, and put the food on the table to cool. As soon as she sat down, she remembered…
Contributor:
Joseph Opatoshu
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912
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I doubt if the Dreyfus case made such a stir anywhere as it did in Kasrilevka.
Paris, they say, seethed like a boiling vat. The papers carried streamers, generals shot themselves, and small boys ran…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1902
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On a seasonable Saturday morning, Itchele decided that the time had finally come to get even with the butchers for their bloody triumph before the holiday. He got together a bunch of young toughs and…
Contributor:
Isaac Meir Weissenberg
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1906
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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