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The kinnor, called in a foreign tongue arpa (harp), is a wooden instrument made in the likeness of a wide-open entrance without their being doors on it, and its upper threshold is broad and its lower…
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Abraham Portaleone
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
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1611
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The common names of plants used by different nations and languages were not coined by chance alone. If we examine the origin of these names, we find they are based on ancient legend and that the…
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Aaron Aaronsohn
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(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1913
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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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I have merited to make this book, which I named Kol sasson [The Voice of Gladness], for the reason that our masters of blessed memory said that it is obligatory for everyone…
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Mordechai Seror
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Algiers, French Protectorate of Algeria
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1884
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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…
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Joseph Nehama
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1913
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If wandering, considered as the liberation from every given point in space, is the conceptual opposite to being fixed to a given point, then the sociological form of “the stranger” presents the union…
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Georg Simmel
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1906