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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)
Date:
1862
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Once again, following our custom of addressing readers [of the weekly journal Jutrzenka (Dawn), April 3, 1863] in view of the upcoming celebrations, we open the book of books, our holy Torah, in order…
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Daniel Neufeld
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1863
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All nations have been subject, in their authors, as in all other things, to significant important changes. Inclinations, needs, and the relations of their subjects change, as do the passions of the…
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Benedetto Frizzi
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Trieste, Habsburg Empire
(Trieste, Italy)
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1787–1790
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Lelio Della Torre
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Padua, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
(Padova, Italy)
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1829
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1. What religion do you profess?
I believe in the Mosaic Religion, which was revealed by the Lord; and I esteem the same as the true, pure, and unmixed word of God.
2…
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Isaac Leeser
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1839
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We translated Musar haskel for the following five reasons:
The first is that our hearts have become so hardened that instruction does not easily penetrate them. This is why we wrote this educational…
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Isaac Bekhor Amarachi, Joseph ben Meir Sason
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1843
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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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There are facts of such an overwhelming power that even the most stubborn opinion must yield to them. Such a fact is the origin of Judaism in the midst of rude surroundings, like a vigorous…
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Abraham Geiger
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Frankfort, German Confederation
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia
(Wrocław, Poland)
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1864
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In our previous studies we attempted to prove that the first Jews in southern Russian were not Germanic, as is claimed by Graetz and other German scholars, but rather Bosporan and Asian, as they…
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Abraham Harkavy
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1865
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In the evening through her garden
Wanders the Alcalde’s daughter;
Festal sounds of drum and trumpet
Ring out hither from the castle.
“I am weary of the dances,
Honeyed words of adulation
From the…
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Heinrich Heine
Places:
Göttingen, German Confederation
(Göttingen, Germany)
Date:
1827