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id: 20756
title: Rabbi and Priest: A Story
author: Goldsmith, Milton
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  "You make a great mistake, sister," said Bensef, "if you allow Mendel to "We are trying to reach Kief, where we have friends," answered Mendel. door and said: "Itzig, thou hast come about a sick boy at Kief." The "Well, my boy, what is it?" asked the Rabbi, as Mendel gazed wistfully "Come, Mendel, let us go home," he said aloud, and they started silently One evening Mendel entered the Rabbi''s house in unusual haste, his face the happy day that made Mendel and Recha man and wife was not long in "Well, Jew," said another, seizing Mendel by the beard; "by what charms A long discussion followed, in which Mendel proved that the Jews, in "Your hand, Rabbi," he said, heartily, "you have carried the day. "Poor Jews," said the Governor, sadly. the time when Mendel Winenki was a power in the Governor''s house


id: 28982
title: Ghetto Comedies
author: Zangwill, Israel
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  Winstay, he said, was of good English family, with an old house in As they sat at the midday meal on the exciting day, Mrs. Cohn said ''Goodness knows,'' said Simon. ''He seemed such a nice old man,'' said Mrs. Cohn, as she recalled the ''Ah yes,'' said Sir Asher good-humouredly. ''As long as Simeon Samuels keeps open, you can''t shut,'' said Solomon ''Good afternoon, Mr. Samuels,'' said Solomon Barzinsky. ''But on different days, of course,'' said Simeon Samuels. ''Mrs. Beckenstein, really you mustn''t come here like that!'' said the ''You know the name!'' said the young woman, a little surprised. ''I don''t know so much,'' said the old woman, shaking her bewigged head. ''Perhaps I, too, shall write a play one day,'' he said. ''Yes, old blood''s way is sometimes worse than young blood''s,'' said ''Yes, yes, I know,'' said David; ''but where is there room in Palestine


id: 18164
title: Potash & Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures
author: Glass, Montague
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  "It comes high, Mawruss," Abe said to his partner, after he had returned "Don''t worry, Abe," said Morris; "they know they stuck us good and "I should think, Abe," Morris said at length, "the doctor wouldn''t let "I''ll tell you the truth, Hymie," Abe replied, "I ain''t got no time to "I know, Hymie," said Abe, "but I''m going home to-morrow, and I got a "Ain''t it funny, Mawruss," Abe said, the morning of Louis'' expected "Of course, Mawruss, people''s got their likes and dislikes," Abe said; "I know all about that, Abe," Hymie replied, "but you ain''t Mawruss, and "Well, ain''t you got no suspicions, Mawruss?" Abe asked. Mawruss," said Abe Potash, to his partner, Morris Perlmutter, after the "I know it, Mawruss," Abe replied, "but he''s got six stores, and they''re "Them ain''t fixtures what we got it here, Mawruss," Abe replied.


id: 27001
title: Jewish Children
author: Sholem Aleichem
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  open air, away from my father and mother, I shall show her such tricks That''s what my mother said, thanking God for the good Passover. "Now, little boy, get into my bag, and come." So said to me the old man, "I am the only child of my father and mother." Said he: "To me you are Then he said to me more sternly: "For the last time, little boy. Tabernacle?" asked my mother of my father some time before the Feast of until his mother saw him, and said to his father that the young scamp The few words his mother had said to his father about his biting off the The day before the Festival, father came home a little earlier from his "Zalmen wants the palm and the citron," said my mother to my father. "Come over here, my little ornament," said my father to me next day.


id: 7469
title: Daniel Deronda
author: Eliot, George
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  "Mamma, mamma, pray come here!" said Gwendolen, Mrs. Davilow having "I think Miss Arrowpoint has the best manners I ever saw," said Mrs. Davilow, when she and Gwendolen were in a dressing-room with Mrs. Gascoigne and Anna, but at a distance where they could have their talk "I should hope a marriage like that would not come off," said Deronda, "Your uncle and aunt were disappointed at not seeing you," said Mrs. Davilow, coming near the piano, and watching Gwendolen''s movements. feeling she looked at Deronda and said, "It is curious that Mirah, who spoken to each other, said, "Deronda, you will like to hear what Mrs. Grandcourt tells me about your favorite Klesmer." "We hardly thought that Mirah could laugh till Hans came," said Mrs. Meyrick, seeing that Deronda, like herself, was observing the pretty "Oh, for shame, Hans!--to speak in that way of Mr. Deronda," said Mab. And Mrs. Meyrick''s face showed something like an under-current of


id: 12680
title: Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
author: Zangwill, Israel
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  "Then I will wish you a good day," said the young man. "I tell thee what, MÃ©she," said old Mrs. Ansell often, "that woman wants You know Esther right enough," said Solomon and began to whistle "I''m very well, thank you," said Esther, looking up from a little "Oh, do you think so?" said Esther, her dark eyes lighting up with "Well, they would know father," said Esther in low tones. "Yes, but it''s not on the Time Table," said Esther, shaking her little "Father says people say you are not good," said Esther candidly. "I think father only said that," Esther went on, "because he fancies I "Yes, but I can''t come down," said Esther, with tears in her eyes. "Father, dost thou hear?" said Esther, for Moses Ansell was fingering "No," said Esther, lowering her eyes and looking away. "I suppose I shall look in and see them all," said Esther, smiling.


id: 34617
title: The Jews of Barnow: Stories
author: Franzos, Karl Emil
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  That one horrible text in their prayer-book, said by the men, "Thank God The Jew''s great white house stands exactly opposite the old gray But the tall stern-looking old man to whom the house belongs is even "Old Moses is a very remarkable man," says the district judge to the new you never heard any one speak of the old man''s daughter, beautiful Esther names; but except at such times, the grave reserved man showed the child the time, but next day, when I happened to see old Moses, I told him the One day Nathan stood at the shop-door for a long time in earnest "Nathan," said Chane, "what a strange man the district judge is! time he revisits Barnow, he tries to soften the old man''s heart. "You know that a Jew is looked upon nowadays as a man like every one


id: 35076
title: Ghetto Tragedies
author: Zangwill, Israel
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  "But your father wouldn''t like it," said Zillah feebly. "Yes, it is a wonderful world," said Zillah; "I never thought about it "Brum," she said at last, "this is the only day for a long time that Mrs. Peyser opened her eyes, and a beautiful mother-light came into "But thou, apple of my eye," the old man said to Srul, "thou wilt die "Leah would not give Biela to a Sabbath-breaker," said the old man come upon Srul for help, a man with a wife and (if God were good) "God bless you!" I said, and turning away with misty vision, saw, "Yes, for mother," said Salvina. She went to feast her eyes on the new-old house and came home "Dear mother, he doesn''t know you if he thinks that!" said Salvina, "Tell Salvina the news," she said. "Would you like a blanket?" said the old man.


id: 38413
title: The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies
author: Zangwill, Israel
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  Psalms-man," said Manasseh sternly. "Manasseh Bueno Barzillai Azevedo da Costa," said the _Schnorrer_. "Help yourself to more bread and butter, YankelÃ©," said Manasseh. "This way, YankelÃ©," said Manasseh, showing him to the door. Come this way," said Manasseh. "You''ll overlook it this time, sir," said the little humorist, turning "Well, if _you''re_ satisfied, YankelÃ©," said Manasseh, with a touch of "No--I couldn''t think of taking it out of your hands," said Manasseh "The Rabbi wishes to know what you want," she said when she returned. "It''s a long story," said YankelÃ©, "and as your good vife told me your "Do you come my way, YankelÃ©?" said Manasseh carelessly. "Ah, you are right, Grobstock," said Manasseh with a sigh of "For the poor man--excommunication," said Manasseh in ominous "I shall not leave this chamber till I choose," said Manasseh, "Then she can''t know he''s a married man," said the hind legs hoarsely.


id: 36715
title: Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto
author: Cahan, Abraham
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  He only knows how to strike like a bear [Jake adapted his voice and "Better don''t answer him, Jake," said Fanny, intimately. "Vell, vill you treat, Jake?" said Mamie. Jake''s scribe was an old Jew who kept a little stand on Pitt Street, And so Jake and Bernstein came home in unusually good said "Coom a fight!" and held out his little fists so delighted Mr. Podkovnik, Sr., that upon ordering Gitl to serve supper he vouchsafed a Gitl reflected that with Bernstein Jake was in the habit of talking "Min'' je, Jake," she said anxiously a little after, as she handed him tenement house, that Jake and Gitl, for the first time since his Jake and Gitl. Gitl carefully looked away from Jake. Jake as well as to Gitl, "that this divorce is good only upon condition While Gitl thus sat swaying and wringing her hands, Jake, Mamie, her


id: 37242
title: Stories and Pictures
author: Peretz, Isaac Loeb
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  day is coming when earth shall yield her increase, and heaven give Is it likely a Rebbe should have no affairs on hand with the Solemn Days Suddenly she grew angry: "Lazy thing!" she cried; "a great girl like you I go up to my father''s bed to hand him something, and my mother comes in "To-day"--father wanted to cheer me up--"they are coming to measure you In half a year''s time he went through measles in the house-of-study, and the book open, and runs about the house-of-study like a mad thing, When the time comes, he will know; doors and windows won''t keep the "I know, Rebbe," he answered, "but I will not eat anything to-day." cook comes home from market with good things for the feast-day long "My knowing little wife," chuckles the man''s head. you, poor thing, have come to look like; and that the child was as


id: 37419
title: Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch. Two Stories of Jewish Life
author: Frank, Ulrich
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  To-day I was called to attend an old man who lives at the Flour Market, said, "and I hope it won''t be necessary to let Herr Professor Eichelkatz In a decent Jewish family the love of man and wife is their "Yes, Herr Kreisphysikus, in a little town you get to know people, and about your parents, Herr Kreisphysikus, and what a pious, good old lady "Do you know, Herr Kreisphysikus, they say man''s life is short; and And now imagine, Herr Kreisphysikus, how many moments each man lives "It''s cold, Herr Kreisphysikus; a bad time for old people. "I don''t know the people of to-day very well, Herr Kreisphysikus. New Year''s Day, which people like to celebrate together at home. "That seems to have been the opinion of the rest of the family," Mr. Benas said to his son, "and it is really time, Hugo, that you put an end


id: 39166
title: The White Terror and The Red: A Novel of Revolutionary Russia
author: Cahan, Abraham
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  "I should like to meet her very much," Pavel said earnestly. It needed a little girl to make a convert of a great man like One man, Orlovsky''s immediate superior in office, shook Pavel''s hand When she came at last he said inwardly: "That''s what she looks like, look of keen intelligence, Pavel said to himself: "And this Jewish girl One day, when Clara, Masha and Pavel were together, he said to the Yossl was a young man he had changed his Good Jews several times. "You look like a good girl," he said, frowning at her amicably. The next time Clara and Pavel met, in the trunk-shop, he asked her when who saw him during this period said that he looked like a hunted man. "But it looks like the States-General," the Czar said to Loris-Melikoff. either hand," he said, "when I saw a Gentile with a face like a carrot


id: 33707
title: Yiddish Tales
author: nan
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  time and had come back again, and he said that he had seen poor people night my door opened, and in came--Yüdel, the "living orphan"; he looked As he says this, he sees something like a little flame coming along out I took Schpol on my way home, and went to see the Old Man, for the Rebbe And Reb Chayyim Vital said, it all came from his great longing for the Reb Lebish said never a word, he gave a deep sigh, turned away without "No evil eye," says the father, and he looks at his children devouring Suddenly the door opened and a ten-year-old boy came into the room, in a "A good Sabbath!" said the little boy, with a loud, ringing voice. Berel stood before God like a little child before its At these last words Reb Shloimeh nodded in a knowing way, and looked at


id: 44290
title: A King of Tyre: A Tale of the Times of Ezra and Nehemiah
author: Ludlow, James M. (James Meeker)
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  So saying, King Hiram strode down from the dais, and left the council Old Egbalus, the high priest of Baal-Melkarth for the the Great Sea. As the king watched the well-timed stroke of the oars, unvaried by the Turning to Hiram, as they moved out of hearing of the men, Captain Hanno since the days of the Great Hiram, our king would order them to be taken Egbalus continued: "King Hiram believes not in the gods; would destroy laid his hand upon the king''s arm as he said, "Let us first make sure The priest raised his voice in praying, so that Hiram caught the words "O Baal Hiram, King of Tyre! Jehovah the "God of the Hills?" Surely Hiram had heard Ben Yusef singing "You shall not fly from the tent of Ben Yusef," said the old man, with priests said, taken to Baal and become a god, he surely would have


