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How This Collection Came To Me
January 9, 2020It’s simple, really. My mother died in 1991. Thirteen years later my father died. My brother and I fixed up the house in New York, where […] -
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Vladimir the Great Finds a Faith
January 8, 2020From The Russian Chronicle 10th Century A.D. Only a lust for conquest exceeded Prince Vladimir’s lust for women, which, they say, rivaled Solomon’s. Vladimir had four […] -
Business Card of Bezalel 1913
July 28, 2018This is a business card for Bezalel, who repaired sewing machines. It is written in Yiddish. This was found among the letters of Polya’s collection. Most […] -
Mark Twain’s Response to Massacres in Kishinev
July 28, 2018The plight of Russia in the early twentieth century did not escape notice by Mark Twain. Mark Twain wrote in response to dispatches regarding the 1903 […] -
A Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as The Tragic Muse
July 28, 2018Grandmothers can have long lives before we know them. And mine was around sixty when I first came into the world. Now, I say around […]
