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At the present moment there are from New York City and suburbs two women students at Cornell, four at Bryn Mawr, thirteen at Smith, seventeen at Vassar (besides fifteen in preparation for it) and…
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Annie Nathan Meyer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1888
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The purpose of Agudat Israel is the solution of the respective tasks facing the Jewish collectivity, in the spirit of the Torah. In accordance with this purpose, it sets itself the following goals: (1…
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Agudas Yisroel
Places:
Katovitze, German Empire
(Katowice, Poland)
Date:
1912
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June 17, 1888 [June 29 in the Gregorian calendar]
Dear Sir:
Several days ago, I received an undated and terse postcard from one of my friends, a person close to me, H. Epstein, in which the…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Zamość, Russian Empire
(Zamość, Poland)
Date:
1888
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Brenner sinned. He went and published terrible heretical remarks, implying that the fundamental question is not the question of the Jewish religion, but the question of the place of productive work…
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David Ben-Gurion
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1911
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The position of the Jewish woman in Germany today cannot be ascertained from understanding the present alone. A brief look at the recent and distant past—perhaps even the long-distant past—is…
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Bertha Pappenheim
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1935
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That self-hatred is present among Jews is a fact that the non-Jew would hardly believe, but which is well known among the Jews themselves. It is a phenomenon which has been observed ever since the…
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Kurt Lewin
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Iowa City, United States of America
Date:
1941
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In the past there were no children among Jews, only “little Jews without beards,” so neither was there any children’s literature. Boys in the traditional heder used to read Ḥumesh [The Pentateuch]…
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Shmuel Niger
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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It is you, modern girls, whom I address. The modern spirit has completely changed your natures. If the sages of old, who spoke so much about the wonderful strength of woman as opposed to man, found…
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Reina ha-Kohen
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1898
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“Bar Kokhba” Jewish Society
Cairo, Egypt
Founded the 1st of Adar I 5657
February 1897
Central Headquarters
Mr. Theodor Herzl
Editor of the “Neue Freie Presse”
Vienna
Sir, dear coreligionist in…
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Bar Kokhba Jewish Society
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Egypt, Egypt)
Date:
1897
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Society of “Hebrew Language Lovers” [Ḥoveve sefat ‘ever] Moscow Branch Maruseyka, 10 Kosmodimian Alley Telephone: 180-53 Moscow, 24 Adar 5677 [March 18, 1917] To Mr. Ḥ.N. Bialik in Odessa,Honored…
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Shoshana Persits
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917