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It is traditional to begin a new magazine with brave declarations. If we do not, we trust we shall be forgiven.
We begin at a moment heavy with a sense of human destiny. Every schoolboy who listens to…
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Elliot E. Cohen
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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I trust that none of my remarks will be understood to say that assimilation is not now, or has not always been, a great threat to the Jewish group. In a sense, the problem of assimilation is as old as…
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Gerson D. Cohen
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Brookline, United States of America
Date:
1966
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What I am trying to suggest is that, different as the immediately present objects were in each case, Torah for the Rabbis, Nature for Wordsworth, there existed for the Rabbis and for Wordsworth a…
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Lionel Trilling
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London, United Kingdom
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1950
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What follows is an account of how the daily newspapers in Hungary reported the Israeli response to one of the “high points” of the new Intifada, a series of Palestinian attacks that…
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János Gadó
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
2002
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Literature cannot survive, cannot develop freely and expansively, if it depends on an underdeveloped reader, if it satisfies the spiritual-aesthetic needs only of those who have no access to the…
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Shmuel Niger, A. Vayter, Shmarye Gorelik
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1908
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It has been a long time since things have been this lively in the little Yiddish literary world of Russia. Our young writers have crowned the current period in Jewish life with the name “Cultural…
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Tsivyon
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1908
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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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- A. Stories and sketches from life today and in the past; legends and poems.B. Articles about Jewish history and the Land of Israel, and the history of the achievements of…
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(Israel, Israel)
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1911
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We live in a time of Sturm und Drang [storm and stress]. Every day brings new disappointments and new hopes. Old forms lose their value, no new ones are being created. And the synthetic gaze of…
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David Bergelson
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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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