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An agent of the kahal who is charged with monitoring Jewish cases in the police and in giving gifts to officials is a Jewish middleman.
Jews utilize the art of the middleman not only in trade…
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Jacob Brafman
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1869
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Speech delivered at the May meeting of agitators in Vilna in 1895.
Dear comrades!
Today, every group of the fighting proletariat has marked successes in its activities. It will be most appropriate to…
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Julius Martov
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1895
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Since time immemorial Jews in every city would customarily kasher the dishes they use throughout the year for Passover—glassware by soaking, and pots by heating them to a very high temperature. But a…
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Rosalea Gershenowitz, Urye Kahan
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1884
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Upon you, great ones, the rebbes of the Hasidim, who follow the path of the Ba‘al Shem Tov, and of whose glorious name they boast and by…
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Eliezer Zweifel
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1873
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This minute-book belongs to the members of the Psalms-Society formed here, at Aleksat, of the honorable Jews serving in the army of His Imperial Majesty Alexander, may His glory be exalted, at the…
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Judah Scheindling of Shkudy
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Shkudy, Russian Empire
(Skuodas, Lithuania)
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1864–1867
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Honored Conference:
Three liberating moments in Jewish history created our movement.
I don’t want to be a prophet, and to proclaim that we are now experiencing a new historical moment, that we are…
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Y. L. Peretz
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1908
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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
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1913
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Is this the Jew of the East? Is he an old man, who, almost entirely removed from the present day and certainly removed from the future, lives a life that is limited to the most oppressed and narrowest…
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Arnold Zweig
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Kaunas, Russian Empire
(Kaunas, Lithuania)
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1918
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This morning I met Vaclav on the street.
“God himself has arranged our meeting,” he continued after the usual greetings and inquiries about health. “Walking here, I thought of you.”
“Might I be able…
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Lev Levanda
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1871–1873
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Photographer Unknown
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1905