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7 September 1787
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With leave and submission I address myself to those in whom there is wisdom and understanding and knowledge, they are the honourable personages appointed and Made overseers of a…
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Jonas Phillips
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1787
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We [of the Polish weekly journal Jutrzenka (Dawn), October 25, 1861] have already had the opportunity to mention a number of periodicals devoted entirely to Jewish affairs. We have also named three…
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Daniel Neufeld
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1861
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Warsaw, 15 December 1861
Mr. Medard’s reply to our letter dated 15 November has not, in the least, surprised us; we had indeed expected it, exactly in the form in which it is composed…
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Al. K.
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1862
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For the purposes of preparing for this emancipation, four measures are proposed: 1) the establishment of a Jewish newspaper in Russian; 2) the establishment of a scholarly literary journal in Yiddish…
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Emmanuil Borisovich Levin
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Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1859
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Thank you, Chief Justice. Mr. President, distinguished guests, colleagues, and friends. Not yet two months ago, President Clinton announced his intention to nominate me as Associate Justice of the…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Washington, United States of America
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1993
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The situation in Argentina is crying for change. If we don’t want the Jewish colonists to vanish into anonymous misery and oppression; if we don’t want the colonies…
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Leon Chasanowitch
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Lwow, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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What the Zionist Organization has to aim at is to lay down in Palestine as soon as possible a populous and thriving agrarian foundation, in order to build up…
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Franz Oppenheimer
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New York, United States
Date:
1914
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New York January 17, 1915
Dear Mrs. Julius Rosenwald,
Let me congratulate you and Palestine upon having secured as you tell me in your telegram, a “splendid response from a local” [Chicago Jewish…
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Henrietta Szold
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New York, United States of America
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1915
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1824 years from the Destruction. Issue no. 36
The rumor about military service for the Jews in our land comes in every European newspaper, in almost the same form as when we presented it in an…
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1893
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I was born a Jew, and as I attained self-awareness, I realized that almost four thousand years of human history were working to present me with questions: How was I to understand myself as a Jew, how…
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Henryk Nusbaum
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899