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Can you guess, children, which is the best of all holidays? Hannukah, of course.
You don’t go to cheder for eight days in a row, you eat pancakes every day, spin your dreidel to your heart’s content…
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…
The Jewish kindergarten not only needs to be, but also can be in Hebrew. But at the same time, we must recognize that in the countries of exile, this matter entails arduous labor. If we saw the…
Dad and Nimrod had an agreed-upon whistle. When dad whistled that whistle, even from a distance, Nimrod would immediately leap up from his place and race toward him. Dad said that this was the whistle…
Who among you, my little brothers, my dear children, has not played this game? We all know it, you might think so in your hearts, we do not need to talk about it. But I will lay this game out before…
To ward off depression while living as a refugee in France, Charlotte Salomon began telling the story of her life in the form of a drama, in hundreds of gouache paintings. This painting depicts her…
Aunt Feiga is making jam today. She has to hurry. The raspberry season will soon be over. So Aunt Feiga is all in a swivet; she has bought a huge bowl of raspberries and fifteen pounds of sugar and is…
Once there was a stroke of misfortune.
The day it happened, Mother couldn’t stop cursing this wretched life. Something occurred that almost caused Father to hang himself out of pure shame. After that…
[ . . . ] Let us return to my maternal grandmother, Matte, of blessed memory. After she married off my late aunt Ulk, she was left penniless with the fatherless child my mother, may she live…