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We are embarking on the publication of a new journal devoted to the affairs of the workers and masses of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel and the Ottoman Empire. We wish to create a journal…
Contributor:
Editorial Board of Ha-Aḥdut
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1910
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What are the demands of the organized proletariat on this day [May 1]?
Above all the eight-hour workday. With eight-hour days we would gain work for thousands of unemployed men; we would gain time to…
Contributor:
Abraham Benaroya
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1911
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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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My precious heart, my handsome soldier son,
I write this letter with my blood to you.
Since you’ve had to take the Kaiser’s shilling
our world has turned red of a fiery hue.
The big decisive battle…
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Zseni Várnai
Places:
Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1912
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
The word “feminism” is interpreted in different ways. Some would grant [women] exaggerated rights. Others limit their demands to their simplest form without arriving at a proper…
Contributor:
Graziella Benghiat
Places:
İzmir, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1913
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The immigration of the Yemenites has halted. Over the past year, some two hundred and fifty to three hundred Yemenite families have settled in the colonies. The internal migrations of Yemenites from…
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Shmuel Yavnieli
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(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1913
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The sinyor Rav h"r Shaul had a strong aversion to the Turkish language to the extent that he would excommunicate anyone singing Turkish songs. Not only Turkish songs, but even a Jewish liturgical…
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Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Palestine
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1881–1890
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The echo that Marx’s writing arouses in Jews’ hearts provides clearer evidence [of Marx’s influence on Judaism].
As everybody knows, a Jewish proletariat did not exist during Marx’s lifetime…
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Zalman Shazar
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1918
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For many years we have awaited your arrival on our soil. We waited, as we believed that your arrival fulfills our eminent, longing of millennia. To our great pleasure, the joyous day has arrived…
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Ben-Zion Hai Uziel
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1919
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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…
Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Zamość, Russian Empire
(Zamość, Poland)
Date:
1888