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Older people still remember it. Younger people know about it from reading our classic writers of the older generation: how Jews once gave much thought to naming a child, long before it was born and…
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Moyshe Altman
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1968
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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1916
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Wilhelm Wachtel
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Lwow, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Lviv, Ukraine)
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1912
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Our master, the holy rabbi, told a tale of the Ba‘al Shem Tov (may his memory be for a blessing to the life of the world to come!). There was once a matter involving great danger to the human life of…
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Reuben Zak
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Ustyluh, Russian Empire
(Ustyluh, Ukraine)
Date:
1906
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Three liberating moments in Jewish history created our movement.
I don’t want to be a prophet, and to proclaim that we are now experiencing a new historical moment, that we are…
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Y. L. Peretz
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1908
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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1918
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I doubt if the Dreyfus case made such a stir anywhere as it did in Kasrilevka.
Paris, they say, seethed like a boiling vat. The papers carried streamers, generals shot themselves, and small boys ran…
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Sholem Aleichem
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1902
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“A negative attitude toward the diaspora” is an expression frequently heard in discussions between the Zionists, who look beyond the diaspora for a solution to our national problem, and the…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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1909
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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