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But you, West Slavic Jews, you who are so proud of your intelligence and education, you who are so proud of the sciences that you tend like exotic plants [ . . . ] I ask whether you are so…
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David Kuh
Places:
Budapest, Austrian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1844
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Motivated by the book by Mrs. R. Centnerszwerowa: There is a heated struggle going on about public schooling in the [Polish] Kingdom [of the Russian Empire]. Various speakers at a range of meetings…
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Majer Bałaban
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1898
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To the editorial board of Ha-Nir, greetings.
For some time, I have wanted to tell our honorable writers what a simple householder [ba‘al ha-bayit] like me wants from our literature.
By using the term…
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Alexander Ziskind Rabinovitz
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(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1909
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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)
Date:
1895
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The distinction between religious and secular music is not universally admitted. There is a considerable group of people, some of them very learned in the art and science of sound, who claim that…
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Joseph Reider
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Philadelphia, United States of America
New York, United States
Date:
1918
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The goal of the natural method of language acquisition is not simply to teach people how to speak in as little time possible; its goal is to inculcate the language to the learner in an easy and…
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Yitsḥak Epstein
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Palestine
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1898
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[ . . . ] Similarly, the Russian Jews use the traditional rhyming couplet in those verses that chronicle a historical event or inculcate an ethical truth. The real folksongs, however, are set to music…
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Leo Wiener
Places:
New York, United States of America
Philadelphia, United States
Date:
1898
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Is the Holocaust definable? Is it desirable to define it? After all, definitions are abstractions from reality and are useful only insofar as they help us to better understand the world around us. Any…
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Yehuda Bauer
Places:
New Haven, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
2001
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The library should be set up in the center of the district it serves, preferably on a quiet street where there is less noise and dust. Dry premises must…
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OPE (Society for Promotion of Culture Among Jews in Russia)
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1914
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Hebrew:Woe be to me, in my old age,
That it should have to come to this:
That I stand in judgment here
With a shameless servant girl
And her vulgar band of friends.
No one knows me anymore!
Yiddish:O…
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“Eliyahu”
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1906