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And after all the argumentation and consideration
The Jew will arise and speak to us:
“In our blessed country all voices of the Torah are at the doorway
And all lessons will captivate the hearts of…
Contributor:
Avigdor Hameiri
Places:
Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1910
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The Yiddish language is our mother tongue. But is it the language of education, by means of which we can best understand each other? Does anyone even make the suggestion that…
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Shiye Mordkhe Lifshits
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863
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Ai, the troubles of a greenhorn! A scholar in the subject of cloakmaking, as I am today, I had not yet become. And if in those days you had “unioned” me till you were blue in the face, I still would…
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Leon Kobrin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
Before 1910
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God be praised, it is now a year since we began printing our supplement to Ha-melits, the Kol mevaser, the world’s first newspaper in plain Yiddish. At first, many people ridiculed us, but time has…
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Urye Kahan
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863
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Understanding the positive and negative aspects of the language elements introduced by the intelligentsia is particularly important for Yiddish philology, since the task of philology does not end with…
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Ber Borochov
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1913
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I want to be a Pole. You have my word!
I want to reach the peak of Polishness
But I can find no way to manage:
They always shout: “You’re a jew!”
When I defend the jews from slander,
Hoping to…
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Leo Belmont
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1900
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[ . . . ] I further wish to say: it is not sufficient that we worry ourselves with the young kids who will grow into goats—we must also be concerned with the mature goats who have already grown horns…
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A. Litai
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917