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During the nineteenth century the lives of Jews in Russia underwent enormous changes. In pre-reform times most Jews lived in villages and small towns. Most were engaged in trade and…
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Naum Abramovich Bukhbinder
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1931
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A Lion on his deathbed lay.
There’s truth in every word I say.
He was gravely ill indeed.
Then came to him a goodly host
Of all the forest-dwelling beasts.
They came most eagerly…
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Unknown
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1595
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Wake, Israel, wake! Recall to-day
The glorious Maccabean rage,
The sire heroic, hoary-gray,
His five-fold lion-lineage:
The Wise, the Elect, the Help-of-God,
The Burst-of-Spring, the…
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Emma Lazarus
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New York, United States of America
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1882
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I take the liberty of addressing to you my last words, and through you to the Polish Government and the Polish people, to the Governments and the peoples of the Allied States—to the conscience of the…
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Artur-Shmuel Ziegelboym
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London, United Kingdom
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1942
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Blessed are you to God . . . You the holy congregation of ‘Akron, may your Rock and Creator preserve you; inform us about your concerns and tell us about your happenings, for I and the Minister, the…
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Unknown
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Akron, Ottoman Empire
(Akre, Iraq)
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17th Century
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Gathering the sources was a modern way of closing ranks, of reaffirming the essential unity of Jewish experience as one vale of tears through space and time. The harder the times, the more desperately…
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Samuel D. Kassow
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New York, United States of America
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1984
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Anyone arriving from Western Europe by steamship to Mohilev for the first time will be struck on the dock by nothing as much as by the enormous throng of…
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Sara Rabinowitsch
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1903
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Women have always played a noticeable role in the Bund movement. Even at the dawn of the Jewish labor movement they were distinguished by their number and activity. The mass movement in Vilna began…
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Anna Rozental
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1937
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Hark! My beloved! Here he comes,
Thousands, myriads at his side,
And over me, his banner of love!
I was sleeping, but my heart
was awake within me.
I could hear but…
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Jacob ha-Sofer
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Fez, Alawi Dynasty
(Fes, Morocco)
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Early 16th Century
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Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…
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Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
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1907