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  • A peasant called Dushkin, who keeps a dram-shop facing the house, brought to the police office a jeweller’s case containing some gold ear-rings, and told a long rigmarole.

    Chapter IV. Part II 1917

  • A peasant called Dushkin, who keeps a dram-shop facing the house, brought to the police office a jeweller's case containing some gold ear-rings, and told a long rigamarole.

    Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

  • A peasant called Dushkin, who keeps a dram-shop facing the house, brought to the police office a jeweller’s case containing some gold ear-rings, and told a long rigamarole.

    Crime and Punishment 2002

  • First Census of Jewish Schools in the Diaspora, 1981/2 – 1982/3 (1986); Dushkin, Alexander.

    Teaching Profession in the United States. 2009

  • Naomi Kassan Amir was born in Chicago on January 23, 1931, the first daughter and second child of Eva (Dushkin) and Shalom Kassan, an American mother and Palestinian father.

    Naomi Amir. 2009

  • Julia Aaronsohn (later Dushkin), a young American Jewish nutritionist and graduate of Cornell University, who had arrived in the country with the encouragement of Henrietta Szold, was chosen to direct the nutrition departments at five Hadassah hospitals.

    Hadassah: Yishuv to the Present Day. 2009

  • According to one contemporary observer, the “school was confined to the teaching of girls, for two reasons; first, because it was easier to get Jewish parents to permit the teaching of these modern ‘fads’ [that is, Hebrew language and religious Zionism] to girls than to boys, and second, because the nationalist movement made the education of Jewish women an essential part of its program” (Dushkin, p. 83).

    Orthodox Judaism in the United States. 2009

  • Of course they sought high and low for Nikolay; they detained Dushkin and searched his house; Dmitri, too, was arrested; the Kolomensky men also were turned inside out.

    Crime and Punishment 2002

  • Dmitri and everything, he took up his cap and ran to Dushkin and, as we know, got a rouble from him.

    Crime and Punishment 2002

  • As soon as he saw the ear-rings, forgetting Dmitri and everything, he took up his cap and ran to Dushkin and, as we know, got a rouble from him.

    Chapter IV. Part II 1917

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