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In the past there were no children among Jews, only “little Jews without beards,” so neither was there any children’s literature. Boys in the traditional heder used to read Ḥumesh [The Pentateuch]…
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Shmuel Niger
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1913
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The Jewish intelligentsia, the Jewish art patrons showed no sign of attention to Yiddish theater. A sickly weakling, it was born in southern Russia forty years ago, and has remained anemic and weak to…
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Mark Rivesman
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1918–1919
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The anthologist, like the historian and the novelist, is an autobiographer is disguise. He is driven into the jungles and watering places of literature by instinct as well as by design. The ultimate…
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Leo W. Schwarz
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New York, United States of America
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1943
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But any honest observer of the contemporary scene must admit that the fading of traditional Jewish piety has not meant its replacement by more “Christian” forms of religious life, even though some of…
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Nathan Glazer
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1956
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The case of Kafka, the acculturated Jew, shows how a man may feel his way into a body of collective history through his very consciousness of being outside it: Kafka brooded over the experience of the…
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Robert Alter
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1968
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Some impassioned readers among us will not admit that our one and only literature has a double language. After the Czernowitz conference, one of our Hebrew writers (now living in America) swore…
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Bal-Makhshoves
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1918
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I have often been asked, and still am asked, whether I know from my frequent conversations with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy about his attitudes toward the Jews. I am asked whether I spoke with him on…
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Ilya Ginzburg
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1910
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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…
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Joseph Nehama
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1913
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The science of Folk-lore tries to explain in a scientific way the origin, growth and development of popular literature; it discovers the sources from which the popular fancy has drawn its materials…
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Moses Gaster
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Oxford, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Date:
1886
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One may consider this work a sort of memorial book that captures the history of the Jews and Judaism in our century. It does not narrate stories but reports; it presents personages about whom I was…
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Moritz Lazarus
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1887