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The goal of the natural method of language acquisition is not simply to teach people how to speak in as little time possible; its goal is to inculcate the language to the learner in an easy and…
Contributor:
Yitsḥak Epstein
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Palestine
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1898
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[ . . . ] Similarly, the Russian Jews use the traditional rhyming couplet in those verses that chronicle a historical event or inculcate an ethical truth. The real folksongs, however, are set to music…
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Leo Wiener
Places:
New York, United States of America
Philadelphia, United States
Date:
1898
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Hebrew:Woe be to me, in my old age,
That it should have to come to this:
That I stand in judgment here
With a shameless servant girl
And her vulgar band of friends.
No one knows me anymore!
Yiddish:O…
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“Eliyahu”
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1906
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Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…
Contributor:
Avram Naon
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909
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The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East was established in 1948 with the aid of three bodies: the General…
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1949
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Motivated by the book by Mrs. R. Centnerszwerowa: There is a heated struggle going on about public schooling in the [Polish] Kingdom [of the Russian Empire]. Various speakers at a range of meetings…
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Majer Bałaban
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1898
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Esteemed editor:
Permit me to say a couple of words about the educational work of the Arbeter Ring.
I think that the work, as now conducted, is wasted. As far as the Arbeter Ring’s courses go there…
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B. Sheyfer
Places:
Buffalo, United States of America
Date:
1918
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Even in the narrative prose written by native Hebrew speakers towards the end of the 1940s, writers who hardly knew any foreign language and who were assuming positions at the center of the literary…
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Itamar Even-Zohar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1980