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But I want to go on recounting how the Prague movement developed, and what made the revolution, which brought so many impressive, great, and noble things to light everywhere, made everything in Prague…
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Moritz Hartmann
Places:
Stuttgart, German Empire
(Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1874
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In order to survive, a newspaper needs numerous subscribers, the help of the community, paid publications, the aid of the friends of education, the generosity of the nation, and the support of the…
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Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1877
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“Hey, hey, out of my way!” shouted a driver from the seat of his coach as he nearly ran into two women standing in the middle of the busiest street in Glupsk, both carrying…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Žitómir, Russian Empire
(Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1878
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The Chaldeans broke up the bronze columns of the House of the Lord, the stands, and the bronze tank that was in the House of the Lord; and they carried the bronze away to Babylon. They also took…
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The shtetl, lost here among Polish fields and groves, might be called Turek or Przasnysz, Konin or Maków, yet what one remembers is not the name but the old marketplace reeking of tar and dung where a…
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Sofia Dubnova-Erlich
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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What makes a book like this more than just a collection of excerpts, strung together interchangeably? What makes it a book? If I were to say it had been a matter of selection, who would venture to…
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S. Y. Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1959
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Yehudis:
Yidele—a question. Hear me out.
And please don’t interrupt and start to shout.
Yidele:
I’m not exactly in the mood, my dear,
But go ahead and…
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Shiye Mordkhe Lifshits
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1862
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So, is it not an injustice for girls to be so neglected that the refined feelings which are God’s gift to all mankind are often destroyed in them? But if you speak to Jewish parents they will tell you…
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Urye Kahan, Alexander Zederbaum
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863
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God be praised, it is now a year since we began printing our supplement to Ha-melits, the Kol mevaser, the world’s first newspaper in plain Yiddish. At first, many people ridiculed us, but time has…
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Urye Kahan
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863
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In the previous article, I presented you, dear reader, with the essence of the three different approaches existing within our religion, to which I have respectively…
Contributor:
Fabius Mieses
Places:
Leipzig, German Confederation
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1868