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“The story began in the year . . .”
But he forgot which year it was, so you must make do without it.
“It happened towards the end of Elul, when people say slikhes, penitential prayers. A town is a…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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Some of the proverbs I have collected appeared previously in the yearbook Der hoyz-fraynd published by M. Spektor in Warsaw (1888–1889). The collection I am now presenting to the reader as…
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Ignatz Bernshteyn
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Leipzig, German Empire
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1907
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When one comes to collect legends of the Hebrews and Jews from the many diverse strata of our literature, one must be armed with all the secrets of the schools and fruits of visionary…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Leipzig, German Empire
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1912
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Humor—is a Jewish thing. What Jew doesn’t enjoy listening to a nice story, parable, or witticism? When is a Jew indisposed to joking around? Not due to great luxury, God forbid, but on the contrary…
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Sholem Aleichem
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1892
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Léon Weissberg
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
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1926
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In every village in the region, in every farmhouse you’d meet them, the Boyars. The first Boyar, family legend had it, had settled in the Polesian forests many generations ago. His name had been Ezra…
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Eli Shechtman
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1965
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Anyone familiar with our Russian Poland knows what Jews mean by a small shtetl, a little town.
A small shtetl has a few small cabins, and a fair every other Sunday. The Jews deal in liquor, grain…
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Israel Aksenfeld
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1861
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The [bram]ble sent a message to the pomegranate as follows: “Dear Pomegranate, what good are all [your] thorns [to him who tou]ches your [fru]it?” The [pome] granate replied to the bramble, “You are…
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Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt
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Fifth Century BCE
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Moses Pescarol
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Ferrara, Papal States
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1618