Showing Results 61 - 70 of 157
Public Access
Text
Despite all the great difficulties and obstacles, the school in Demievka soon attracted the attention of the Kiev Jewish public. The remote muddy little street in Demievka became a central location…
Contributor:
Mikhl Levitan
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
- To perform their work in the workshop for three complete years from the day of their entry, not to cease at all during this tenure, and not to be hired by another artisan, neither as an apprentice nor…
Contributor:
Sha‘are Torah Technical School
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1907
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
It is a not a simple cookbook that I am presenting herewith to my sisters in faith, although most room is given to the “kitchen.” This book of Cooking and Home Economics [Koch- und…
Contributor:
Flora Wolff
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1888
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The purpose of this work is to acquaint the Yiddish reader with the theory, structure, and various forms of belletristic literature in general and Yiddish literature in particular.The need for…
Contributor:
A. B. Rosenshteyn
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The purpose of the Jewish University is to offer Jewish youth the opportunity to obtain an education:
- A. In the general higher disciplines with special consideration given to the Wissenschaft des…
Contributor:
Martin Buber, Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann
Places:
Date:
1902
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
We can see that our sages, of blessed memory, likewise declared the Torah a weapon, as it has stood by us, enabling us to emerge triumphant in the wars for our religious and moral existence, in which…
Contributor:
Yitsḥak Ya‘akov Reines
Places:
Date:
1913
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Together with many others we emigrated from Kraków to the great city of Vienna. It is already ten weeks since we relocated here. We withstood many troubles. For nearly two weeks we simply wandered in…
Contributor:
Sarah Schenirer
Places:
Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1915
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The inception of literature is certainly not merely a matter of ideas and ideology. Not only are the contents connected to the forms and dependent on them, but the development of the forms has its own…
Contributor:
Gershon Shaked
Places:
Afula, Israel
Date:
1971
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Before continuing my story about the events in Pinsk in the summer of 1940, I would like to digress briefly into the realm of the miraculous. Let us imagine the impossible—something fantastic and…
Contributor:
Julius Margolin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
A good many years ago, in 1929, I chanced to read a book which disturbed me in a way I can still remember. The book was called Red Cavalry; it was a collection of stories about Soviet regiments of…
Contributor:
Lionel Trilling
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1955