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In came the beginning of the month of December 1918.
Like the cheerless, cold drizzle, dirty frozen air hovers over the fields. Everywhere fragments of sky seem to be scattered over mounds of earth…
Contributor:
David Bergelson
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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Hannah the blind woman was told before her wedding that her future husband was a widower in the tobacco business; at first they also assured her that this widower had been left with no children from…
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Jacob Steinberg
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1922
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The terrace of the large coffee house in Berlin was almost empty, save for the occasional occupied table. The season had already turned autumnal. The weather was unpredictable, and the air carried a…
Contributor:
Hersh Dovid Nomberg
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925–1926
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[ . . . ] And we get out of their way; we move in the opposite direction, toward where they’ve come from, toward Petroshi.And you see, they do not forbid it. And it may be that in Petroshi, where they…
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Itsik Kipnis
Places:
Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1926
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This work, which I here make public, answers a scholarly need that became evident to me twenty-five years ago, when I was still a young student writing my first book, The Beginning…
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Yitshak (Ignacy) Schiper
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1930
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Lasik’s downfall did not come because of his name. It was only because of that sigh. Perhaps it was not even the sigh, but rather the economic situation, or the hot weather, or perhaps even certain…
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Ilya Ehrenburg
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Paris, France
Date:
1928
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At three in the morning, Rabbi Sholem Tuvim returned home from visiting his sick father. His father was in great need of comfort, and he, Reb Sholem, would have stayed by him the entire night if the…
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Joseph Opatoshu
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1928
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When the forest-writer Avraham-Yisroel moved from the woods into the city, he had his own wife, three daughters, and two sons. He also had…
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Sh. Horonczyk
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1936
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Arn-Wolf—parnes khoydesh (chairman of the kahal, the community council)Beyle—his wifeStere—his daughterRabbiFirst and Second Dayen (judges of the bes din…
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Moyshe Kulbak
Places:
Minsk, USSR (Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
1936
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I slept with a murderer every night of my life for two years. The murderer is dead now. He died some weeks ago in Chicago. That is why I am free to tell the tale.
I was a small boy at that time. I…
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Louis Golding
Places:
Manchester, United Kingdom
Date:
1938