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Dedicated to my sister and friend Sarah Rappoport
A people’s poetry depicts, vividly and in clear relief, the hidden inner world of national life, to which we are admitted neither by the pen of the…
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S. An-ski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1908
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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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“A negative attitude toward the diaspora” is an expression frequently heard in discussions between the Zionists, who look beyond the diaspora for a solution to our national problem, and the…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1909
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A passage in chapter 22 of the third Book of Moses was destined to become the starting point for one of the most peculiar religious concepts of the Jewish people. It reads: “Observe my laws and…
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Samuel Hugo Bergmann
Places:
Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1913
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The skeptics and rebels who have just recently appeared in our literature say: What? The Jews have survived? Yes, it’s true they have survived. But, my friends, survival alone is not yet a virtue…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1913
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Dear Sir, [ . . . ]
We can talk about a Jewish racial or religious sentiment, but this is in perfect harmony with the Jews’ Hungarian national sentiment, which is not a patriotic slogan but a very…
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József Patai
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1914
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The problem concerning the establishment of a Higher School for Jewish studies, which was recently raised by the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia (OPE), should be…
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Ben-Zion Dinur
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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Beloved brothers!
It is a sublime and meaningful name we have taken for ourselves! We carry the name of choice individuals from our people—people who have, in practice, actually presented themselves…
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David Horowitz
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Austro-Hungarian Empire (Austria, Austria)
Date:
1917
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Esteemed editor:
Permit me to say a couple of words about the educational work of the Arbeter Ring.
I think that the work, as now conducted, is wasted. As far as the Arbeter Ring’s courses go there…
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B. Sheyfer
Places:
Buffalo, United States of America
Date:
1918