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Sebastian Münster
Places:
Basel, Swiss Confederacy
(Basel, Switzerland)
Date:
1541
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The secretary rises and begins to read out the indictment:“It has been nearly twenty years since Yiddish began to show signs of becoming a language, to stretch its limbs and demonstrate some forward…
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Sholem Aleichem
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1888
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To the Lilliputians and to the Giants
Translated and adapted from Jonathan Swift by Alexandre Benghiat.
The prince of that place, who saw and liked me, bought me from my master, and I was taken to…
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Alexander Benghiat
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1903–1904
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In the Name of God, May We Endeavor and Succeed.
I Behold God before my Eyes at All Times.
A Dedication to My Master, My Father, May He Live Forever.
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Elisha ben Samuel
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1684
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There’s a stale, sour stench: a miscellany of heaped-up vegetables and fruits, cheese, fried fish, sweaty bodies, thighs, urine, and belching drunks. The smell sneaks harsh but titillating into the…
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Meir Corona
Places:
Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1939
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[ . . . ] I have striven to transmit exactly the course of thought, the spirit, and the expressions of the [original] text; thus, you have before you not a “reworking” but a true translation.I have…
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Max Weinreich
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1915