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Yiddish TalesIf It Was A DreamYes, it was a terrible dream! But when one is only nine yea... The Charitable Loan The largest fair in Klemenke is "Ulas." The little town wai... Eliezer David Rosenthal Born, 1861, in Chotin, Bessarabia; went to Breslau, Germany... Yohrzeit For Mother The Ginzburgs' first child died of inflammation of the lung... Judah Steinberg Born, 1863, in Lipkany, Bessarabia; died, 1907, in Odessa; ... Shalom Asch Born, 1881, in Kutno, Government of Warsaw, Russian Poland;... Meyer Blinkin Born, 1879, in a village near Pereyaslav, Government of Pol... David Pinski Born, 1872, in Mohileff (Lithuania), White Russia; refused ... Micha Joseph Berdyczewski Born, 1865, in Berschad, Podolia, Southwestern Russia; educ... The Treasure To sleep, in summer time, in a room four yards square, toge... It Is Well You ask how it is that I remained a Jew? Whose merit it is?... Poverty I was living in Mezkez at the time, and Seinwill Bookbinder... Slack Times They Sleep Despite the fact of the winter nights being long and dark a... Mordecai Spektor Born, 1859, in Uman, Government of Kieff, Little Russia; educ... Reuben Asher Braudes Born, 1851, in Wilna (Lithuania), White Russia; went to Rouma... The Clever Rabbi A FOLK TALE The power of man's imagination, said my Grandmot... A Gloomy Wedding They handed Gittel a letter that had come by post, she put ... Gymnasiye A man's worst enemy, I tell you, will never do him the harm... Reb Shloimeh The seventy-year-old Reb Shloimeh's son, whose home was in ... A Scholar's Mother The market lies foursquare, surrounded on every side by low... |
Mordecai SpektorCategory: MORDECAI SPEKTOR Born, 1859, in Uman, Government of Kieff, Little Russia; education Hasidic; entered business in 1878; wrote first sketch, A Roman ohn Liebe, in 1882; contributor to Zedernbaum's Juedisches Volksblatt, 1884-1887; founded, in 1888, and edited Der Hausfreund, at Warsaw; editor of Warsaw daily papers, Unser Leben, and (at present, 1912) Dos neie Leben; writer of novels, historical romances, and sketches in Yiddish; contributor to numerous periodicals; compiled a volume of more than two thousand Jewish proverbs. Next: An Original Strike Previous: Whence A Proverb
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