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That was how she watched over the samovar all night long, so that it would boil properly. Occasionally, Grandfather stayed over for several nights at the home of one of the gentry. Then, she would…
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Yekhezkl Kotik
Places:
Kamenets, Russian Empire (Kamenets, Belarus)
Date:
1912
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My parents had been married for five years when I was born, the second child after my sister, and, as far back as I can remember, I never heard them quarreling. It is possible that they…
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Sasson Somekh
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2003
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The Settlement Cook Book, first published in 1901 as a pamphlet, soon became a mainstay of American domestic culture and was published in more than forty editions before its final publication in 1991…
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Lizzie Black Kander
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Milwaukee, United States of America
Date:
1901
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Grandma Rekhl—my mother’s mother, whose name the members of the household and the people of the town all pronounced with exactness: Rekhl precisely with an “e,”…
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Ḥayim Tchemerinsky
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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To Build a Fire
Measuring
Scalloped Apples
Coffee
Setting the Table
Washing Dishes
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Lizzie Black Kander
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Milwaukee, United States of America
Date:
1901
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If I had to pick one defining moment in my Iranian life, it would be 5:00 a.m. one Friday in the fall of 1968. I was fifteen. Normally I woke to the sounds of a peddler selling green almonds and fava…
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Farideh Goldin
Places:
Norfolk, United States of America
Date:
2003
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The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered…
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Betty Friedan
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1963
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My father lived to be ninety-eight, and until the end of his life he never failed to introduce my sister and me with a grand gesture as his “two disappointments.” We were, very simply put, an…
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Ruth Gay
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1996
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A. O my sisters! O my daughters! O women, my people and pride! Hear my words, understand my musings, consider my way, for I am your brother. I have gathered for you beautiful words, chosen from the…
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Ben Ish Ḥai
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1905/6
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[The first act is set in Tuscany in September. The second and third acts are set in Rome in January.]
Contributor:
Sabatino Lopez
Places:
Kingdom of Italy (Italy, Italy)
Date:
1904