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Goyim in the Ghetto
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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…

Contributor:

Peretz Opoczynski

Places:

Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1941

Subjects:

Christian-Jewish relations, Jewish quarters, Antisemitism, Nazis, Jewish identity, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
Good Night, World
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Good night, wide world. Big, stinking world. Not you, but I, slam the gate. In my long robe, With my flaming, yellow patch, With my proud gait, At my own command— I return to the ghetto. Wipe out…

Contributor:

Jacob Glatstein

Places:

New York City, United States of America

Date:

1938

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Jewish quarters, Christian-Jewish relations, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
Fall in Vilna
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Yom Kippur, when the narrow alleys of the shulhoyf cradle the small shtibls, pious and scared, householders hurry with their taleisim and old men shuffle along in their socks— I feel the narrow…

Contributor:

Chaim Grade

Places:

New York City, United States of America

Date:

Date unknown, mid-20th century

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Christian-Jewish relations, Holidays, Jewish quarters, Adolescence, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry