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Vincent Brauner (Yitskhok Broyner)
Places:
Lodz, Second Polish Republic
(Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1920
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Warsaw, October 17, 1932
Dear friend S. Niger,
When we speak about left and right, we should, first of all, enclose both words in thick quotation marks, and then we have to remember that true left…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1932
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Our generation came to this country from lands where Jewish life had been lived within its own boundaries, and where our communal leaders had instilled in us a sense of responsibility to ensure that…
Contributor:
Leibush Lehrer
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
ca. 1939
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The compartment of the Berlin–Warsaw–Moscow train is warm and pleasant. The dining car is fully packed. One can hear various languages—French, German, English, Russian, Chinese, and…
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Israel Joshua Singer
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1928
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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
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Without the appropriate distance, writing history is particularly difficult and thorny in this case. And there is an additional element of complexity. Forced into the thankless role of the prosecutor…
Contributor:
Josef Wulf, Léon Poliakov
Places:
Berlin, West Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1955
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[ . . . ] Modern Jewish humor grows from the tension of having to reconcile a belief as absolute as Elijah’s with an experience of failure as absolute as that of the priests of Baal…
Contributor:
Ruth R. Wisse
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
(Canada)
Date:
1971
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As Yiddish poetry grew more modern, even modernistic, as it grew freer in rhythm, subtler in tonality, more artful and sophisticated in imagery, it also grew more Jewish—I was almost going to say more…
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Abraham Tabachnik
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1950
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“Good morning, Master of the universe!
I, Levi-Yitzchok of Berdytschev, have come to hold
Judgment with You concerning Your people Israel.
What have You against Israel?
Why have you imposed…
Contributor:
Levi Isaac of Berdichev
Places:
Berdyczów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Berdychiv, Ukraine)
Date:
ca. 1790
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King Solomon, peace be upon him, says in…
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Rebecca Tiktiner
Places:
Tykocin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Tykocin, Poland)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century