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Part One, in which are shown all the rules necessary for understanding language, how to compose and write therein prose and verse, with the appropriate elegance and measure.
To the Reader:
Although I…
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Moses Gideon Abudiente
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1633
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In your merciful, compassionate name. In the Arabic language they say, “in the name of God, merciful and compassionate.” And in the Persian tongue they say, “in the name of God, generous and…
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Unknown
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Isfahan, Afsharid Dynasty (Isfahan, Iran)
Date:
1740
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The situation of Jews in the Soviet Union may well be the greatest of all the great wonders of the world. The history of Jews in tsarist Russia has been centuries of darkness…
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David Pinski
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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We may assume that the executive committee of Aḥdut Ha-Avoda did what was necessary to explain our position to our allied organizations abroad, the exact situation of the question of language in Eretz…
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Berl Katznelson
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1919
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“Are you at peace? Hast thou killed and also taken possession?”
(examples of interrogative sentences in a grammar book)
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Dan Pagis
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1982
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Even in the narrative prose written by native Hebrew speakers towards the end of the 1940s, writers who hardly knew any foreign language and who were assuming positions at the center of the literary…
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Itamar Even-Zohar
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1980
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I belong to that peculiar generation of Jews who have the duty to speak Yiddish, my mother tongue, in a tongue at once familiar and “foreign”—French. Though Yiddish is still used as a vernacular…
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Myriam Anissimov
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Paris, France
Date:
1995
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The criterion for the selection of works to be included in the anthology was above all their lasting literary and artistic value, though here and there poems and short stories were…
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Khone Shmeruk
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1964
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[ . . . ] Modern Jewish humor grows from the tension of having to reconcile a belief as absolute as Elijah’s with an experience of failure as absolute as that of the priests of Baal…
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Ruth R. Wisse
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1971
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The acquaintance between the Iranian and Jewish peoples began approximately 2,500 years ago. Historical and linguistic evidence supporting…
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Amnon Netser
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Tehran, Iran
Date:
1973