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We [of the Polish weekly journal Jutrzenka (Dawn), October 25, 1861] have already had the opportunity to mention a number of periodicals devoted entirely to Jewish affairs. We have also named three…
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Daniel Neufeld
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1861
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In our previous studies we attempted to prove that the first Jews in southern Russian were not Germanic, as is claimed by Graetz and other German scholars, but rather Bosporan and Asian, as they…
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Abraham Harkavy
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1865
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Solomon Proops
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1730
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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)
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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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Anonymous
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1740
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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
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863
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With God’s help I set myself the aim,
And with God’s aid I hope to achieve the same.
The holy book of Psalms in Taytsh [Yiddish] to make known,
Hoping that all shall praise and extol God, blessed be…
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Royzl bas Joseph Levi
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1586
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No Jew shall be allowed to cause to be printed in this city or outside it in these realms Hebrew or Ladino books or [books] in any other language without express permission of the Mahamad [board of…
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The Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London
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London, Kingdom of England
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1693
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Moses Frankfurt said: The holy Torah tells us that the Holy One commanded Moses to interpret the Torah very plainly (Deuteronomy 27:8), to explain it clearly in seventy languages so that all nations…
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David de Aron Uziel Cardoso, Moses Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1719/20
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Menaḥem Mann Amelander (died before 1767) and Eliezer Soesman (Zusman) Rudelsum published the volumes of Sefer magishe minḥah between 1725 and 1729 in Amsterdam. Following the example of Sefer ha…
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Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch, Meir Cohen Belinfante, Isaac Siprut, Anonymous
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1725