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When the [Yiddish language] culture conference gathered in Czernowitz [in September, 1908], I was against it. When the culture conference gathered in Berlin, I voiced my doubts about it. Now that a…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1910
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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
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New York, United States of America
Philadelphia, United States
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1898
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Notice, dear readers, that one of the foundations of Judaism is the belief (אמונה) in השארת הנפש, the abidingness of the soul, which means the immortality of the soul, for a person’s soul does not die…
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Ḥayim Shaki
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1899
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Whoever reads Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, his letters, and even his Hebrew grammar, will recognize and avow that Spinoza was, relative to his times in Amsterdam, if not a great scholar…
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Joseph Klausner
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1927
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We are calling upon the Hungarian general public and especially our Jewish coreligionists to support a new undertaking. Our undertaking does not seek to compete with an existing one; rather, it…
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Wilhelm Bacher, József Bánóczi
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Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
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1884
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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
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1898
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Dedicated to my sister and friend Sarah Rappoport
A people’s poetry depicts, vividly and in clear relief, the hidden inner world of national life, to which we are admitted neither by the pen of the…
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S. An-ski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1908
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Gentlemen! Although I do not for a minute doubt that the majority of those present here know of the great worldwide workers’ holiday of “May 1st,” I nevertheless do not consider it redundant to remind…
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Unknown
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1892
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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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Whereas the legislation regarding linguistic rights currently being considered by the Duma directly opposes the interests of the proletariat and the masses of the Jewish nation; and whereas this…
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The Bund
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Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1910