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This morning I met Vaclav on the street.
“God himself has arranged our meeting,” he continued after the usual greetings and inquiries about health. “Walking here, I thought of you.”
“Might I be able…
Contributor:
Lev Levanda
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871–1873
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Awake, my people! How long will you slumber?
The night has passed, the sun shines bright.
Awake, lift up your eyes, look around you—
Acknowledge, I pray you, your time and your place. . . .
The…
Contributor:
Judah Leib Gordon
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1866
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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
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1898
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I want to be a Pole. You have my word!
I want to reach the peak of Polishness
But I can find no way to manage:
They always shout: “You’re a jew!”
When I defend the jews from slander,
Hoping to…
Contributor:
Leo Belmont
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1900
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Politishes verter-bukh (A Dictionary of Political Terms) is an anonymous work billed as “an interpretation of the strange words that are used in Yiddish newspapers, journals, and political and…
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1907
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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
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Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer
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Moscow, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1914
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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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1913
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Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…
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Unknown
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1907