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The Jewish kindergarten not only needs to be, but also can be in Hebrew. But at the same time, we must recognize that in the countries of exile, this matter entails arduous labor. If we saw the…
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Yeḥiel Heilprin
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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I traveled from Odessa by boat for eleven days until we arrived in Jaffa—this was the path taken by the Russian company’s ships. However, this was not the true length of the journey, which was in fact…
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Mordechai ben Hillel ha-Kohen
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1890
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Among the living nations of the earth the Jews occupy the position of a nation long since dead. With the loss of their fatherland, the Jews lost their independence and fell into a state of decay…
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Leon Pinsker
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Russia)
Date:
1882
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To the Poet Yehuda Leib Levin (“Yehalal”)
Warsaw, Wednesday, Heshvan 5655, 1894
Dear Sir and distinguished author,
Recent years have shown us that the national movement is not merely failing to…
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Shmaryahu Levin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1894
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David Yakerson
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
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1918
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Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, 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”
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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ca. 1906
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Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…
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Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1907
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When a woman has within herself as much of what is masculine as a man has within himself of what is feminine—i.e., what he lacks in Masculinity, then in their sexual union the divided parts of M and F…
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A. Vayter
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1908
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Score of “Le Grand Pas” from the ballet Paquita, which premiered in Paris in 1846 and which, in adapted form, became a mainstay of classical ballet.
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Aloysius Minkus
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1881