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In the past there were no children among Jews, only “little Jews without beards,” so neither was there any children’s literature. Boys in the traditional heder used to read Ḥumesh [The Pentateuch]…
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Shmuel Niger
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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Moise Gadol
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1916
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The purpose of this work is to acquaint the Yiddish reader with the theory, structure, and various forms of belletristic literature in general and Yiddish literature in particular.The need for…
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A. B. Rosenshteyn
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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There are a few Torah scholars who are rich in knowledge and whose mental grasp is abundant, while others do not possess an intellectual grasp akin to theirs, for everyone possesses mental grasp in…
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Yeḥiel Mikhel Epstein
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire
(Fürth, Germany)
Date:
1683–1693
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Shmuel Niger
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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Yehudis:
Yidele—a question. Hear me out.
And please don’t interrupt and start to shout.
Yidele:
I’m not exactly in the mood, my dear,
But go ahead and…
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Shiye Mordkhe Lifshits
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1862
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Literature cannot survive, cannot develop freely and expansively, if it depends on an underdeveloped reader, if it satisfies the spiritual-aesthetic needs only of those who have no access to the…
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Shmuel Niger, A. Vayter, Shmarye Gorelik
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1908
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We live in a time of Sturm und Drang [storm and stress]. Every day brings new disappointments and new hopes. Old forms lose their value, no new ones are being created. And the synthetic gaze of…
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David Bergelson
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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The Bund has inscribed on its banner the demand for equal civil rights for the Jews. At the Convention the opinion was expressed that Jewish Social Democracy deals with the needs of the Jewish…
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The Bund
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1899
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Whereas the legislation regarding linguistic rights currently being considered by the Duma directly opposes the interests of the proletariat and the masses of the Jewish nation; and whereas this…
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The Bund
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Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1910