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Mendele the bookpeddler says: Whenever a Jew comes to a journey’s end, he feels as if his hips are breaking, his back aching, and his knees shaking from being crushed and squeezed…
Contributor:
Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1903–1912
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We must not repeat the mistake made by western Jews . . . in denying their nationality and in assimilating completely in all areas of life except religion. . . . We eastern Jews have seen all the…
Contributor:
Simon Dubnov
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1906
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Aleksandr Tyshler
Date:
1928
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Collection of writings, proclamations, and epistles related to the controversy between Hasidim and Misnagdim during the emergence of Hasidism (1772–1816)
Contributor:
Simon Dubnov
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1918
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Nineteen nineteen was one of the most difficult years for the Bolsheviks. The civil war flared up in every corner of Russia. In Ukraine, Petliura, Grigoriev, Denikin…
Contributor:
Daniel Charney
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Wilno, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Warszawa, Second Polish Republic
Paris, French Republic
Date:
Late 1930s
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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…
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Aron Vergelis
Date:
1961
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Deeply respected Niger,
I ask you to endure me in Russian.
I want to express to you my happiness that we are approaching the time of the new Jewish book, a book created with love towards [the thing]…
Contributor:
El Lissitzky
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1918
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About Grzhebin on canvas, about Grzhebin in the flesh.Since the letter is written in a penitent mood, the trademark of the Grzhebin Publishing House is affixed. Here too are several…
Contributor:
Viktor Shklovsky
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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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…
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Mark Rivesman
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1918–1919