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The death of an artist is never a random event, but a last act of creation that seems to illuminate the whole of his life under a powerful ray of light. [ . . . ] Why are people surprised when poets…
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Nadezhda Mandelstam
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1970
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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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The months of which I am about to write are probably amongst the most painful in my whole life; I interrupted my work on the book for a long time trying to summon up the courage to embark on this…
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Ilya Ehrenburg
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1966
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On the sixth and seventh of April a pogrom took place in Kishinev! A band of Christians attacked the Jewish townspeople and with the greatest cruelty they…
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Central Committee of the Bund
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(Russia, Russia)
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1903
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At the time Iván Mihalkó called on me after my adventure in the forest to say that his father wanted to see me, I was not yet acquainted with Peméte, and had never heard the name of the…
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Béla Illés
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1933
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In the year 1885—when I was nine years old—I started working. My first job was in a little candy factory, where a few girls worked. I used to work a lot: 14–15 hours per day. My pay was 25 kopecks per…
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Khanke Kopeliovitch
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1929
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In the mid-1890s some socialist circles already existed among Jewish workers. The primary proponents of socialist democratic propaganda were first and foremost Jewish workers. In 1897, proclamations…
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David Zaslavsky
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1921
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for I. Ehrenburg
Horses weren’t made for water.
They can swim but not too far.
“Gloria” means the same as “glory”—
You will easily remember this part.
Braving the sea, a transatlantic vessel
Ra…
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Boris Slutsky
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1956
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Before I come to the main subject of my pamphlet, I would like briefly to consider why the Jewish socialists deserted the Jewish masses and what is the current state of mind of a substantial segment…
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Pavel Axelrod
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(Russia, Russia)
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1882