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Our dear brethren, Children of Israel, perhaps the time has now come to repair the breaches in our ranks; let us return to uphold the Torah of the Almighty with all our strength. Who will be the…
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Ḥayim of Volozhin
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Volozhin, Russian Empire (Valozhyn, Belarus)
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1803
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The Yiddish language is our mother tongue. But is it the language of education, by means of which we can best understand each other? Does anyone even make the suggestion that…
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Shiye Mordkhe Lifshits
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1863
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One of the most important things that the government has introduced in Russia to improve education among Jews is the decree that each community must choose a…
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Berish Rozenblum, Menashe Margolis
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1864
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Edited by David Frishman and published by Stybel
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Avraham Stybel
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1918
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The purpose of this work is to acquaint the Yiddish reader with the theory, structure, and various forms of belletristic literature in general and Yiddish literature in particular.The need for…
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A. B. Rosenshteyn
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1908
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The idea of publishing a complete History of the Jews in Russia scarcely calls for extensive explanations or justifications. Russian Jewry, which quantitatively represents the most significant…
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Iulli Gessen
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1913
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Arnold Böcklin is dead—yet who among you knew that he lived? If I were to tell you that he was the man who knew how, with paintbrush dipped in colors upon a piece of canvas, to shake every heart…
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David Frishman
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1901
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Admittedly, it is true that all our hearts will be filled with feelings of astonishment when we recall the giant steps that the new generation has taken upon the peaks of the sciences and forms of…
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Abraham Harkavy
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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1864
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A major issue within the internal politics of the Russian government concerns the Russification of populations in our remote regions who follow different religions and are of other ethnic backgrounds…
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Ilya Orshanski
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1877
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With the same character, with which the individual human being is born, with the same he descends into the grave. The kindly disposed does not become ill-disposed, the judicious does not become…
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Daniel Khvolson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1871