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There are two sorts of biography: the biography a famous person writes for his admirers, because the public likes to know everything about celebrities, and [the] autobiography, usually written because…
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Moses Leib Lilienblum
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1873
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Jewish children grow up quickly. If only their bodies ripened as quickly as their hearts and minds! Were this an artist’s crayon in my hand instead of a pen, I would draw the following caricature of…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1913
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[ . . . ] However, the new Ha-Shiloaḥ will also be different from its predecessor in many important respects. Without a doubt, Hebrew literature has evolved and accomplished much over the past fifteen…
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Joseph Klausner
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1903
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We must not repeat the mistake made by western Jews . . . in denying their nationality and in assimilating completely in all areas of life except religion. . . . We eastern Jews have seen all the…
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Simon Dubnov
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1906
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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
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1894
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Kovno, Thursday, 20 Heshvan 5629 [5 November 1868]
His Honor, the Great Sage and Sweet Singer of Israel,
Judah Leib Gordon, greetings!
My dear esteemed gentleman! While I was still in Suwalki…
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Miriam Markel-Mosessohn
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Kovno, Russian Empire (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1868
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Deeply respected Niger,
I ask you to endure me in Russian.
I want to express to you my happiness that we are approaching the time of the new Jewish book, a book created with love towards [the thing]…
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El Lissitzky
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1918
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Dedication to My Dearly Beloved Grandfather, Reb Mendalle Mocher Sephorim
To my dear grandfather, greetings!
Stempenyu, my first long novel, which I inscribe to you, is yours; not only because I have…
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Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1886
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1903
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Subscription for the Year 1903 to the First Daily Zhargon (Yiddish) Newspaper in Russia, Der frayndPublished in Saint Petersburg by Sh. Ginzburg and Sh. Rapaport [S. An-ski]
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Peysakh Marek
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1903