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What I Preached on Sunday [of the Week of] the Torah Portion Tetsaveh, 26 February, 1939
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Gentlemen, today is the seventh of Adar, the anniversary of the death of Moses our teacher, of blessed memory. We have gathered in…

Contributor:

Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich

Places:

Shamloy, Hungary (Berehove, Ukraine)

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Midrash, Rabbis, Antisemitism, Exile, Rabbinic/Rabbinite

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology, Sermons
Lament on the Ukrainian Massacre
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[To the tune of “Adir ayom ve-nora.”]Come, dear friends, let us cry and lamentThe horrible things that have happened in these times.In the year that Messiah was expected amid tribulation [1648],Cossa…

Contributor:

Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi

Places:

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)

Date:

1648

Subjects:

Pogroms, Death, Antisemitism, Mourning, Rabbis

Categories:

History, Music, Popular Poetry
We’re Laughing Our Heads Off
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We’re laughing our heads off: None of us wears a top-hat We just go around with heads—or without heads— But the Rabbi of Uman Holds up a mirror to the sun. We laugh our heads off When a gang comes…

Contributor:

Leyb Kvitko

Places:

Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1923

Subjects:

Rabbis, Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Violence, Hasidism

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Why Do the Heathen Rage?
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The latest attempt to salvage poor shipwrecked Judaism in America is on. The Menorah Journal summoned the doughtiest intellectuals to this heroic task. These came highly equipped with trenchant pen…

Contributor:

Abba Hillel Silver

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Date:

1926

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Education, Synagogue, Rabbis, Leadership

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology