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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

Subjects:

Shtetl, Family, Gender, Women

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Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & Diaries
My Dear Shtetl Motele
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A. 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

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Shtetl, Family, Women, Yiddish, Gender

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries