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We have come together these days, during the awakening of our Hebrew literary sphere, to establish a special newspaper for Jewish youngsters and children.Do we really need to talk at length about how…
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1917
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To the editor of La Bos del Pueblo:
I am a Jewish girl born in Russia who came to America eight years ago. Although I am not remarkably well-educated, I have always wanted to marry a well-educated boy…
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Clara
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1916
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A book titled in Ladino Obligasyon de los korazones [Duty of the Hearts] because it is translated from a text written by the pious gaon, our master Baḥya the judge, of blessed…
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Iehudah Machabeu
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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16th Century
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An apology for the fact that this is written in the language of Ashkenaz (in Hochdeutch [German]). In my opinion, there are two good reasons for this: first, I have found written in…
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Lów Wallach
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1716
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For I heard slander, fear was on every side [see Psalms 31:14], as the son of the despised maidservant slanders the son of the mistress, saying, “Those miserable Jews, they had a single language from…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1579
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There once arrived at our house a person completely unknown to us, an unmarried lady of about forty, in a little red hat and with a sharp chin and angry dark eyes. On the strength…
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Osip Mandelstam
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1925
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The following descriptions of Yiddish dialects have the same goal as the work published in Volume I of the Tsaytshrift [ journal]. For the most part, the material has been collected the…
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M. Veinger
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1928
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There’s a marvelous story by Eduardo Stilman about a silver samovar. It caressingly describes the prodigious object—its polished ebony handles, finely carved arabesques, mischievously-turned spigot…
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Edna Aizenberg
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New York, United States of America
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1997
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As a subjective experience, the early and easy entry of the [Hebrew] authors of the early twentieth century into the literary arena had deep, formative, and constant influence. This entry marks a…
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Dan Miron
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1987
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A group of people living together under extreme coercive conditions without the conscious intent of forming a community of common fate created forms that were only possible on the basis of the ghetto…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
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Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
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1943