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This morning I met Vaclav on the street.
“God himself has arranged our meeting,” he continued after the usual greetings and inquiries about health. “Walking here, I thought of you.”
“Might I be able…
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Lev Levanda
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871–1873
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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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“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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1909
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Jewish nationalism is a product of the nationalist current engulfing all of humanity; it is an echo, a reflection, and an imitation of a movement occurring in a broader theater. Various nations are…
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Naḥum Sokolow
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(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1897
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In establishing this monthly periodical today, we believe that we are doing that which the times demand, its absence being felt by many.
We are not establishing a study house for sages who will sit…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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1896/97
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3 Shevat 5663 [January 31, 1903]
From all the Zionist essays emerge that which we see with our very eyes: their entire purpose and effort is to instill the supposition among Jews that the Torah and…
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Sholom Dov Ber Schneerson
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Lubavitch, Russian Empire
(Lyubavichi, Russia)
Date:
1903
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This minute-book belongs to the members of the Psalms-Society formed here, at Aleksat, of the honorable Jews serving in the army of His Imperial Majesty Alexander, may His glory be exalted, at the…
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Judah Scheindling of Shkudy
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Shkudy, Russian Empire
(Skuodas, Lithuania)
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1864–1867
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In the early period of Jewish history there was a considerable party which took a materialistic view of the national life, in the sense that it had no ideal beyond that of making the State supreme at…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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1904
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As socialists, we strive to overthrow the existing order, which is based on economic and political slavery, and to create on its ruins that collectivized state which alone can guarantee the full and…
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Unknown
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1904
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It is clear that if there were no other proposal for saving tens of thousands of our brothers from their hard and bitter sufferings, if there were no other way in which our people could be reborn and…
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Yehalel (Yehudah Leib Levin)
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1881