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What follows is an account of how the daily newspapers in Hungary reported the Israeli response to one of the “high points” of the new Intifada, a series of Palestinian attacks that…
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János Gadó
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
2002
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It is traditional to begin a new magazine with brave declarations. If we do not, we trust we shall be forgiven.
We begin at a moment heavy with a sense of human destiny. Every schoolboy who listens to…
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Elliot E. Cohen
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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I trust that none of my remarks will be understood to say that assimilation is not now, or has not always been, a great threat to the Jewish group. In a sense, the problem of assimilation is as old as…
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Gerson D. Cohen
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Brookline, United States of America
Date:
1966
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What I am trying to suggest is that, different as the immediately present objects were in each case, Torah for the Rabbis, Nature for Wordsworth, there existed for the Rabbis and for Wordsworth a…
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Lionel Trilling
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1950
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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)
Date:
1908
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It has been a long time since things have been this lively in the little Yiddish literary world of Russia. Our young writers have crowned the current period in Jewish life with the name “Cultural…
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Tsivyon
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
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
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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We gratefully acknowledge the signs of munificence shown to us by His Majesty’s government which has officially licensed our periodical, Sha‘are mizraḥ. We understand that this benevolence of His…
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Rafael Uziel
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1846
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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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It is you, modern girls, whom I address. The modern spirit has completely changed your natures. If the sages of old, who spoke so much about the wonderful strength of woman as opposed to man, found…
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Reina ha-Kohen
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1898