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Among the living nations of the earth the Jews occupy the position of a nation long since dead. With the loss of their fatherland, the Jews lost their independence and fell into a state of decay…
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Leon Pinsker
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Russia)
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1882
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Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1914
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Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…
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Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1907
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1918
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The train pulls up to the platform, steaming and boiling like a samovar.
Lazar is standing on the platform—short, glowing, joyful—waving his dirty handkerchief at the cars.
The train is on its way to…
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David Khait
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1928
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As a symbol of the past—all sadness and humility—my mother’s face swims up and rises before my eyes. Her eyes two black abysses, anguish peering from them; her lips moist and rosy, a smile always…
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Dvora Baron
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
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1910
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I have often been asked, and still am asked, whether I know from my frequent conversations with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy about his attitudes toward the Jews. I am asked whether I spoke with him on…
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Ilya Ginzburg
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1910
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This is how things go with your average Jew. But Hershele is not your average Jew. It wasn’t by chance that he was famous in all of Ostropol, in all of Berdichev, and in all of Vilyuisk.
Hershele…
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Isaac Babel
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1918
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There is no need to provide evidence concerning the great value of folk songs when one wishes to study the history of a people—any people—and all it has undergone. Alongside the history books of each…
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Shaul Ginsburg, Peysakh Marek
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
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1898
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Precisely in the case of a new and difficult question like “Jewish folk-music,” [ . . . ] it is necessary to establish as much as possible [its] specific, objective characteristics . . . You make fun…
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Joel Engel
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1901