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Faye Avrunin Hurvitz ז“ל

Posted on 2009/06/29 by davka

…from the archives (with minor updat­ing), repost­ed on what would be her 4th Yahrtzeit 21st of Tevet 5674 — 8th of Tam­muz 5765 Decem­ber 20 1913 (the win­ter sol­stice) — July 14, 2005 Our moth­er, Faye Hurvitz, died July 14, 2005 (8th … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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19th Century Jewish Cultural Hero

Posted on 2009/05/22 by davka

I col­lect (Amer­i­can) Juda­ic lapel but­tons. I have approx­i­mate­ly 3000 unique items. Each one rep­re­sents a dif­fer­ent moment in the Amer­i­can Jew­ish expe­ri­ence. Peri­od­i­cal­ly I share them here. My uncle was named after Mendele Mocher Sforim (the “Grand­fa­ther of Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture”). His old­er broth­er, … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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