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Literary-minded Jews have long been perplexed by a strange phenomenon. Our literature which is thousands of years old, comprises tens of thousands of volumes, and represents the many creative forces…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1913
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The problem concerning the establishment of a Higher School for Jewish studies, which was recently raised by the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia (OPE), should be…
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Ben-Zion Dinur
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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The problem of creating a body of translated literature in Yiddish is very important and must be solved systematically. This serves the interests of our original [Yiddish] literature best.
[I will…
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Moyshe Litvakov
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1918–1919
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We live in a time of Sturm und Drang [storm and stress]. Every day brings new disappointments and new hopes. Old forms lose their value, no new ones are being created. And the synthetic gaze of…
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David Bergelson
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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In his book Ha-metsaref [The Purifier], vol. II §182, Rabbi Moses Kunitz wrote:
The term am ha-arets [lit., “People of the Land,” often meaning boors] was applied to people of various dispositions…
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Eliezer Zweifel
Places:
Glukhov, Russian Empire
(Hlukhiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1885
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What more can I add? Will I tell my readers about the disreputable attributes that prevail among those coming from exile, about gratuitous hatred, discord, vain squabbles over a place in the synagogue…
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Ahad Ha-Am
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
St. Petersburg/Odesa, Russia
Date:
1891
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Jerusalem, our holy city, our soul’s yearning and the joy of our hope! Beautiful landscape, the joy of the entire land, if not the city of a great king (Psalm 48:1) . . . Now we cannot know how it was…
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Elhanan Leib Levinsky
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1892
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In establishing this monthly periodical today, we believe that we are doing that which the times demand, its absence being felt by many.
We are not establishing a study house for sages who will sit…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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1896/97
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The wooden synagogue in Chodorów, near Lvov, Poland (now Khodoriv, near Lviv, Ukraine), built in 1652, was destroyed by the Nazis. The austere outside—shown here in an early twentieth-century, black…
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Artist Unknown
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Chodorów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Khodoriv, Ukraine)
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1652 and 1714
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Bruno Schulz
Places:
Drohobych, Second Polish Republic
(Drohobych, Ukraine)
Date:
1920