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Familiar Jewish Scenes
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A Suitor Calls with the Matchmaker. Illustration from Scènes familiales juives (Familiar Jewish Scenes), Alphonse Lévy’s book of caricatures of Alsatian rural Jewish life.

Contributor:

Alphonse Lévy

Places:

Alsace, France

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Marriage, Family, Betrothal, Community

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Drawing of women seated in front of a man as two men spy on the scene from behind a door.
He Walked through the Fields
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Ruthka [checks the pile of clothes lying on the table]:You’ve given him enough clothes to last him for a year.Gita:When one of our members goes away for a while, I don’t want…

Contributor:

Moshe Shamir

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Date:

1948

Subjects:

Kibbutz, Zionism, Parenthood, Marriage, Community

Categories:

Literature, Performing Arts, Theater/Drama
The Jewish Gauchos
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This collection of short vignettes about life in the Jewish agricultural colonies was published for Argentina’s independence centennial. It presents their experience as redemptive.

Contributor:

Alberto Gerchunoff

Places:

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Prayer, Community, Piety, Marriage

Categories:

Literature, Fiction
Shabos-Nakhamu
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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

Subjects:

Economic life, Marriage, Cities, Community, Jewish identity

Categories:

Literature, Fiction