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What is the sought-after culture? What are all the great ideals, all of man’s lofty ideals? What does man seek in life?
If only man knew what he should seek in life! All great ideals were only created…
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Aaron David Gordon
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(Israel, Israel)
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1910
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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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1898
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It seemed to us that there would be a real interest, for the natives and Arabists alike, to have between their hands a collection of ghernata [Granada] poetry as complete as possible and methodically…
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Edmond-Nathan Yafil
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Algiers, French Protectorate of Algeria
(Algiers, Algeria)
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1904
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The science of Folk-lore tries to explain in a scientific way the origin, growth and development of popular literature; it discovers the sources from which the popular fancy has drawn its materials…
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Moses Gaster
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(Oxford, United Kingdom)
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1886
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In a country like Russia where various nations live mixed together, the responsibility of disseminating culture…
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The Bund
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Geneva, Switzerland
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1905
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To his excellency, the great sage, the learned and famous rabbi
Adolf H. Neubauer, the Head Librarian
Of the Government Library in Oxford, England! My dear Sir and Rabbi!
Although I have not hitherto…
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Abraham Dubzhevitch
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1890
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When God began to create heaven and earth—the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the…
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Biblical Period
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[ . . . ] 2. When you stroll along the riverbank, you find an entire plain filled with reeds and bulrushes, all of which are standing erect, one adjacent to the other, and none of them…
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Menachem Mendel Lefin
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Satanów, Russian Empire
(Sataniv, Ukraine)
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1808
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Atzlan ben Abraham al-Karaji
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18th Century
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Samuel Benavente
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1699