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A Mirror on a Stone: The Poetry and Prose of Twelve Martyred Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union
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The criterion for the selection of works to be included in the anthology was above all their lasting literary and artistic value, though here and there poems and short stories were…

Contributor:

Khone Shmeruk

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1964

Subjects:

Writing, Pogroms, Communism, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

History, Anthologies, Literature
Leḥem Yehudah (The Bread of Judah): On the Fate of the First Edition
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I printed my book [Leḥem Yehudah] in Venice at the beginning of for the Almighty Shadai [in gematria = 1553] has dealt very bitterly with me (Ruth 1:20) and the ruler of Rome [the Pope] decreed that…

Contributor:

Judah Lerma

Places:

Sabbioneta, Venice (Sabbioneta, Italy)

Date:

1554

Subjects:

Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Pogroms, Writing, Print

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Firsthand Accounts