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Professor Fishl Shneerson (Warsaw): Out of great respect for YIVO…
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YIVO
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Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1936
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We live in a time of a universal striving for science and civilization, and the spirit of the time warms the hearts of everyone alike with its breath. It permeates the depths of the soul and reason…
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Israel Leon Grosglik
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)
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1869
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Society of “Hebrew Language Lovers” [Ḥoveve sefat ‘ever] Moscow Branch Maruseyka, 10 Kosmodimian Alley Telephone: 180-53 Moscow, 24 Adar 5677 [March 18, 1917] To Mr. Ḥ.N. Bialik in Odessa,Honored…
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Shoshana Persits
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1917
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One of the most important things that the government has introduced in Russia to improve education among Jews is the decree that each community must choose a…
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Berish Rozenblum, Menashe Margolis
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1864
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I was sent to school at Iwenez, about fifteen miles from our abode, and here I began to study Talmud. The study of the Talmud is the chief object of a learned education among our people. Riches…
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Solomon Maimon
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1792–1793
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Did you go to a meldar as a child? Have any of you been so lucky and blessed? I am sure that, seeing these two questions, you will all object that you had no idea what a meldar was and that you went…
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Alexander Benghiat
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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1920
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On the twelfth of the month of Elul in the year five thousand four hundred and eighty-nine, Menaḥem the scribe and teacher of young children in the community of Dessau, became the father of Moses,…
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Isaac Euchel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1788
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The synagogues where older and more modest congregants pray are spared to some extent. It is a good thing that they are closed all day and all night and are opened only for early morning prayers and…
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A. Grodner
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1866
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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
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Stuttgart, German Empire (Stuttgart, Germany)
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1874
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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