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Modern Yiddish literature focuses upon the shtetl during its last tremor of self-awareness, the historical moment when it is still coherent and self-contained but already…
Contributor:
Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1953
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Most of the stories in this collection are modern; a few are ancient. They were written in Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Russian and English, yet all are, to a discerning eye, very clearly Jewish. [ . . .…
Contributor:
Saul Bellow
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1963
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It has been a long time since things have been this lively in the little Yiddish literary world of Russia. Our young writers have crowned the current period in Jewish life with the name “Cultural…
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Tsivyon
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1908
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Literary-minded Jews have long been perplexed by a strange phenomenon. Our literature which is thousands of years old, comprises tens of thousands of volumes, and represents the many creative forces…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1913
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Ever since the written word in Russia became a bit freer, the country has released a torrent of Yiddish publications of every sort. Various publishing houses have appeared, and every one of them is…
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Abraham Cahan
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1907
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We gratefully acknowledge the signs of munificence shown to us by His Majesty’s government which has officially licensed our periodical, Sha‘are mizraḥ. We understand that this benevolence of His…
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Rafael Uziel
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1846
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The secretary rises and begins to read out the indictment:“It has been nearly twenty years since Yiddish began to show signs of becoming a language, to stretch its limbs and demonstrate some forward…
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Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1888
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The Jewish intelligentsia, the Jewish art patrons showed no sign of attention to Yiddish theater. A sickly weakling, it was born in southern Russia forty years ago, and has remained anemic and weak to…
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Mark Rivesman
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1918–1919
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Dear Reader!
We are placing in your hands this first number of Sovetish heymland [Soviet Homeland]. In it you will feel the breath of our times. You will receive news of literary life and hear the…
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Aron Vergelis
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1961
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[ . . . ] Why is fame accorded to this particular individual, far and beyond his own time and place and why does he continue to capture new readers both in the original and in translation? [ . . . P…
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Dov Sadan
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1959