Word: cheders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholars, even soldiers who fought in segregated battalions for Polish independence against the Czar. In return, Poland alternately ignored them or persecuted them with murderous pogroms. Still, a year without a pogrom was considered a good one, and the good years were poetically simple and sweet. Chapter shows a cheder, a Hebrew school full of students so serious that they are almost comic, a scene from a Yiddish play, a 1912 home movie of an Orthodox wedding looking for all the world like a series of moving Chagall lithographs of children, bride, groom and wedding guests...
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