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Linguistic folklore in literature is a component of realistic style. At first, new or renewed literature is usually realistic. The same reasons that introduce…
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Meir Viner
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1928
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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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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective…
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Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, N. Minkov
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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“If God grant that the earth will be full of understanding, and everyone will speak the same language, Ashkenazic, then only (the form) Brisk will be written.” That is how Meir ben Moses Hacohen, the…
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Solomon Birnbaum
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Hamburg, Weimar Republic
(Hamburg, Germany)
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1925
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Unknown
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Rovere, Republic of Venice
(Roverè Veronese, Italy)
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1585–1590
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God, blessed be He, knew very well that the people of Israel would be scattered among the nations and that most of them would not be able to understand the holy tongue [Hebrew]. Therefore our sages…
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ḥayim Druker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1711
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Should we not cry and weep that until now our scholars have not concerned themselves to provide us with a 24 [i.e., Bible] in Yiddish, arranged according to the simple meaning of the text, word for…
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Jekutiel Blitz
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1676–1679
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This introduction will speak about how important the person is through the Torah. One may read them, since there are many teachings with intentions inside. The teaching of the Lord is…
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Shalom Italia, Jacob Ashkenazi of Janov
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(Janów Lubelski, Poland)
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1622
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1500
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A people that forgets its dead is condemned to decay—Jules Guesde
We will never forget our dead. They still live among us and in our thoughts.
For that reason, immediately after the Liberation, we…
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Dovid Diamant
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1946