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A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
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If one looks closely at the passers-by in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto one can see that the overwhelming majority of them are not originally from Warsaw, but are from…

Contributor:

Abraham Lewin

Places:

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

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Jewish identity, Cities, Genocide, Holocaust, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
Jewish London
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A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…

Contributor:

Simon Gelberg

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1901

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Diaspora, Jewish quarters, Journalism

Categories:

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, Journalism

Categories:

Reportage, Journalism