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Honored Conference:
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…
Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
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Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Date:
1908
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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]…
Contributor:
Shmuel Niger
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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The Yiddish-language socialist weekly Der arbayter fraynd (The Worker’s Friend) was founded in London in 1885 by Morris Winchevsky (1856–1932), a political activist and poet originally from Russian…
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Unknown
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1891
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Esteemed Friend and Editor:
Recently a friend of mine, who is a member of the Workmen’s Circle Chorus, visited, bringing with her the…
Contributor:
J. Levitt
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1918
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The secretary rises and begins to read out the indictment:“It has been nearly twenty years since Yiddish began to show signs of becoming a language, to stretch its limbs and demonstrate some forward…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1888
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Jacob Gordin
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1898
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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…
Contributor:
Mark Rivesman
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1918–1919
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Abraham Goldfaden
Date:
1887
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We take Jewish secular culture here in its modern shape, its language form, Yiddish. It is not the first expression of worldly or secular Jewish culture. In ancient times almost the entire cultural…
Contributor:
Chaim Zhitlowsky
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1927
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16th Century