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In one of the recent issues of Ha-Melits, which for unknown reasons I only received today, I read about Mr. W. Shor’s complaint about the Serbian Jews’ refusal to accept Jews, persecuted in other…
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Simon Bernfeld
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Belgrade, Principality of Serbia
(Belgrade, Serbia)
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St. Petersburg, Russia)
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1886
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To Mr. Sh. Dubnow, St. Petersburg
Moscow, Jan. 8, 1907
I received your letter, and thank you for everything you told me about. . . .
I have already heard about the classes you are giving on Genesis…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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1906–1907
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The Bund has inscribed on its banner the demand for equal civil rights for the Jews. At the Convention the opinion was expressed that Jewish Social Democracy deals with the needs of the Jewish…
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The Bund
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1899
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In recent years, a time when the branches of science planted in the vineyard of the Enlightenment stretch out to our brethren in our land [i.e., the Russian Empire], and many eat their fruit, and many…
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Mordechai Tsvi Mane
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
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1881
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Mr. [Israel Ḥayim] Taviov says: “Those who vehemently demand a large and broad literature in the Hebrew language, comprising all branches of wisdom and science—they are the ultranationalists of the…
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Ben-Avigdor
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(Russia, Russia)
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1895
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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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What do we call folk songs? Of course, these are the songs sung by the people. The songs can either come from unknown authors of the ancient, forgotten past . . . or these can be recently written…
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Joel Engel
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1901
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3 Shevat 5663 [January 31, 1903]
From all the Zionist essays emerge that which we see with our very eyes: their entire purpose and effort is to instill the supposition among Jews that the Torah and…
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Sholom Dov Ber Schneerson
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Lubavitch, Russian Empire
(Lyubavichi, Russia)
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1903
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For the purposes of preparing for this emancipation, four measures are proposed: 1) the establishment of a Jewish newspaper in Russian; 2) the establishment of a scholarly literary journal in Yiddish…
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Emmanuil Borisovich Levin
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Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1859
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Precisely in the case of a new and difficult question like “Jewish folk-music,” [ . . . ] it is necessary to establish as much as possible [its] specific, objective characteristics . . . You make fun…
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Joel Engel
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1901