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Guidelines for the Study of the Warsaw Ghetto
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    WorkersHandicraft and small industry: guilds (tsekhn)Trade and industry under Aryan trusteesFree professions: doctors, lawyers…

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Oyneg Shabes Archive

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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Community, Fascism, Jewish identity, Jewish quarters

Categories:

Historical writing, Firsthand accounts, Political Culture
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A round number. At first glance it looks silly and seems to have no specific meaning. A detached number such as this can be likened to those gray people who go through life alone and die without…

Contributor:

Yehoshua Perle

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish identity, Community, Jewish quarters, Violence

Categories:

Firsthand accounts
Letters from Westerbork
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Finding something to say about Westerbork is also difficult because of its ambiguous character. On the one hand it is a stable community in the making, a forced one to be sure, yet with all the…

Contributor:

Etty Hillesum

Places:

General Government (Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Community, Jewish identity

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
A Visit to the Mellah
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On the third morning, as soon as I was alone, I found the way to the mellah [in Marrakesh]. I came to an intersection where many Jews were standing around. Traffic was streaming past them and around a…

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Elias Canetti

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Date:

1968

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Economic life, Community

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Reportage
Among Our Distant Brethren
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(Continued from issue 76 [of Ha-Tsefira])The commandment of hospitality is well-developed in our city, and particularly in the mellah. But emissaries from the kollelim in the “Four Lands” stay with…

Contributor:

Isaac Ibn Ya‘ish

Places:

Essouira, French Protectorate in Morocco (Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco)

Date:

1891

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Education, Jewish identity, Community

Categories:

Reportage, Journalism