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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,”…

Contributor:

Ḥayim Tchemerinsky

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Shtetl, Family, Women, Yiddish, Gender

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
Meneket Rivkah (Rebecca’s Nursemaid)
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King Solomon, peace be upon him, says in…

Contributor:

Rebecca Tiktiner

Places:

Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)

Date:

Second Half of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Women, Piety, Family, Marriage, Yiddish, Wisdom

Categories:

Wisdom Literature