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The synagogues where older and more modest congregants pray are spared to some extent. It is a good thing that they are closed all day and all night and are opened only for early morning prayers and…
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A. Grodner
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1866
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In our first series of discussions, we explored the struggle between the government and the Jews, which was initiated by the former and ended with its triumph over the latter; in the second…
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Mikhail Morgulis
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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ca. 1863
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1. Giedymin, the great prince of Lithuania, who dwelt in the fortress of the city of Troki, once went forth…
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1860
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The library should be set up in the center of the district it serves, preferably on a quiet street where there is less noise and dust. Dry premises must…
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OPE (Society for Promotion of Culture Among Jews in Russia)
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1914
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Pave the way! Pave the way!More than twenty years have passed since the idea that we now call Zionism began to reawaken among the Jews, though its essence and intensity had never ceased among the…
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Ze’ev Yavetz
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1902
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The Birth of the Ba‘al Shem Tov
One of the greatest phenomena, running like a thread throughout the spiritual history of the Jewish people, is mysticism, a remnant of ancient mythology, which could…
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Avraham Kahana
Places:
Zhitomir, Russian Empire (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1900
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The idea of publishing a complete History of the Jews in Russia scarcely calls for extensive explanations or justifications. Russian Jewry, which quantitatively represents the most significant…
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Iulli Gessen
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1913
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Admittedly, it is true that all our hearts will be filled with feelings of astonishment when we recall the giant steps that the new generation has taken upon the peaks of the sciences and forms of…
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Abraham Harkavy
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1864
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A major issue within the internal politics of the Russian government concerns the Russification of populations in our remote regions who follow different religions and are of other ethnic backgrounds…
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Ilya Orshanski
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1877
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In our previous studies we attempted to prove that the first Jews in southern Russian were not Germanic, as is claimed by Graetz and other German scholars, but rather Bosporan and Asian, as they…
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Abraham Harkavy
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1865