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Sivan, 5529 Livorno [1769]
In the name of G-d, the G-d of mercy!
In such measure as light exceeds darkness, such is the superiority of the people of this country over the people of Spain…
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Isaac Euchel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1790
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In the previous article, I presented you, dear reader, with the essence of the three different approaches existing within our religion, to which I have respectively…
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Fabius Mieses
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Leipzig, German Confederation
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1868
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Motivated by the book by Mrs. R. Centnerszwerowa: There is a heated struggle going on about public schooling in the [Polish] Kingdom [of the Russian Empire]. Various speakers at a range of meetings…
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Majer Bałaban
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1898
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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)
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1884
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Bern, Thursday [18 or 25 May 1905]
Dear Habicht,
Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some…
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Albert Einstein
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Bern, Switzerland
Date:
1905
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To the editorial board of Ha-Nir, greetings.
For some time, I have wanted to tell our honorable writers what a simple householder [ba‘al ha-bayit] like me wants from our literature.
By using the term…
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Alexander Ziskind Rabinovitz
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(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1909
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In our great city of New York, no practical question concerning the welfare of Judaism is of more vital importance than that of mission-work among the Jews. [ . . . ] The great every-day phrase, “we…
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Rebekah Kohut
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1893
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The study program of a Torah scholar should follow roughly this order: the Bible, as mentioned above, and the entirety of the Mishnah, as stated above. He should even complete the Orders of the…
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Jonah Landsofer
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
Beginning of the 18th Century
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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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We are calling upon the Hungarian general public and especially our Jewish coreligionists to support a new undertaking. Our undertaking does not seek to compete with an existing one; rather, it…
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Wilhelm Bacher, József Bánóczi
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Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1884