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Cover image and page 4 of Moyshe Broderzon’s Temerl, illustrated by Joseph Chaikov.
He Cast a Look and Went Mad depicts traditional East European Jews in some sort of religious setting but invokes in its title the classic talmudic legend of the sage who “looked and was injured” when…
I understood very early that life is a serious business. I do not remember committing any of those childish pranks that everyone keeps in his distant memory. From the age of four I was sent to the mel…
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…
Jewish children grow up quickly. If only their bodies ripened as quickly as their hearts and minds! Were this an artist’s crayon in my hand instead of a pen, I would draw the following caricature of…
I want, at the request of the Arbeter Ring’s National Education Committee, to give a brief overview of the lectures we have arranged this season.
It is true that we haven’t had the opportunity to…
They are taking me to the town to go to school—let them take me. I will show them how I will learn there; and they ought to know this already, haven’t they seen and also…
Children, onward. Children, onward!
Through this gate.
Every boy shall pass.
Whoever has a white flag,
Go to the right:
Whoever has a blue flag,
Go to the left.
Children, onward. Children, onward!
On…
A systematic collection of the traditional songs of Oriental Jews is of great importance, both for the elucidation of the vocal music used in synagogues and for the study of the origins of…
We are calling upon the Hungarian general public and especially our Jewish coreligionists to support a new undertaking. Our undertaking does not seek to compete with an existing one; rather, it…