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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women did not participate in the free professions regularly because at that time institutes of higher education had not yet opened their doors to them. The…
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Pinchas Kon
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1929
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Professor Fishl Shneerson (Warsaw): Out of great respect for YIVO…
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Yivo
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Vilna, Second Polish Republic
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1936
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Perhaps the most difficult question we have been asked in the course of compiling this catalog has been, “What exactly is it?” Having realized quite early that there are no preexisting…
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The Jewish Catalog
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1973
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There is one people in the world alone who are not sufficiently concerned with “human knowledge” and who have neglected the public instruction of their youth in the laws of etiquette, the sciences and…
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Naphtali Herts Wessely
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1782
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We live in a time of a universal striving for science and civilization, and the spirit of the time warms the hearts of everyone alike with its breath. It permeates the depths of the soul and reason…
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Israel Leon Grosglik
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1869
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Our dear brethren, Children of Israel, perhaps the time has now come to repair the breaches in our ranks; let us return to uphold the Torah of the Almighty with all our strength. Who will be the…
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ḥayim of Volozhin
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Volozhin, Russian Empire
(Valozhyn, Belarus)
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1803
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I was sent to school at Iwenez, about fifteen miles from our abode, and here I began to study Talmud. The study of the Talmud is the chief object of a learned education among our people. Riches…
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Solomon Maimon
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1792–1793
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One of the most important things that the government has introduced in Russia to improve education among Jews is the decree that each community must choose a…
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Berish Rozenblum, Menashe Margolis
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1864
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And now, you, my brethren, my people of holy communities in all the places you live, for several years I have been unable to send you reproaches and words of ethics and righteousness. . . . And since…
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Samuel ha-Levi Barazani
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Barazan, Ottoman Empire
(Barazan, Iran)
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17th Century
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Samuel Benavente
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1699