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Displaced Persons: Growing Up American after the Holocaust
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There was a rumpled old Polish man who boarded in the apartment of our building’s superintendent. With baggy pants, fraying suspenders, a wrinkled hat, and a wooden cane, he looked like the lovable…

Contributor:

Joseph Berger

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Date:

2001

Subjects:

Adolescence, Parenthood, Children, Holocaust, Morality

Categories:

Literature, Memoirs & Diaries, (Auto)biography
Shene luḥot ha-berit (Two Tablets of the Covenant): On Rearing Children
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A crucial and fundamental principle is the proper rearing of children. The Torah has stated: And you shall teach them [the words of Torah] to your children (Deuteronomy 11:19), for that is the…

Contributor:

Isaiah Horowitz

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

ca. 1623

Subjects:

Education, Children, Adolescence, Parenthood, Punishment

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Science & Philosophy, Ethics