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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1903
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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…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1888
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Subscription for the Year 1903 to the First Daily Zhargon (Yiddish) Newspaper in Russia, Der frayndPublished in Saint Petersburg by Sh. Ginzburg and Sh. Rapaport [S. An-ski]
Contributor:
Peysakh Marek
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1903
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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…
Contributor:
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…
Contributor:
Aron Vergelis
Date:
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…
Contributor:
Dov Sadan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1959
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In three acts by the famous author Yitsḥak Katzenelson.
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Karmel, a rich Jewish timber merchant Mr. Kharaz
Yoḥanan, his son Mr. Mikhalesko
Bill, a gypsy captain Mr. Landau
Tarta, an old…
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Unknown
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1917
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To the Poet Yehuda Leib Levin (“Yehalal”)
Warsaw, Wednesday, Heshvan 5655, 1894
Dear Sir and distinguished author,
Recent years have shown us that the national movement is not merely failing to…
Contributor:
Shmaryahu Levin
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1894
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A new letter-writing guide containing many examples of various kinds of important letters written with great diligence, great sensitivity, and in the best style; these letters also include very nice…
Contributor:
Hirsh Leon D’or
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1893
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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
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1953