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Katherine M. Cohen created a number of sculptures that explored Jewish themes, including Jewish Scholar. She also sculpted, on commission, portrait busts of prominent Philadelphia Jews, such as Judge…
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Katherine M. Cohen
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1906
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Society of “Hebrew Language Lovers” [Ḥoveve sefat ‘ever] Moscow Branch Maruseyka, 10 Kosmodimian Alley Telephone: 180-53 Moscow, 24 Adar 5677 [March 18, 1917] To Mr. Ḥ.N. Bialik in Odessa,Honored…
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Shoshana Persits
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917
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We take Jewish secular culture here in its modern shape, its language form, Yiddish. It is not the first expression of worldly or secular Jewish culture. In ancient times almost the entire cultural…
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Chaim Zhitlowsky
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1927
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Some time ago it became known that Knut Hamsun was in the habit of expressing his views in an occasional letter to the editor of the local paper in the small town near which he…
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Walter Benjamin
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1934
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Some decades ago Jewish badkhonim-actors [jesters] were still a very common phenomenon. Most of the time the badkhn was not only an entertainer improvising rhymes and funny sayings, but…
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Dov Ber Slutsky
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1936
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Kehunat Avraham (The Priesthood of Abraham), published in Venice in 1719, is an interpretation and retelling of sections from the book of Psalms in verse. This portrait of its author is believed to be…
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Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1719
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This is a universal history of the Jewish people in that it fully corresponds to the contents and the scope of this…
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Simon Dubnov
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1925–1929
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The tour of inspection on which I invited you to accompany me during this course has come to an end. We must now retrace our steps and review the results achieved by our tour…
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Umberto Cassuto
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1934
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Today it is possible for us to observe the process of Hellenization in individual features only. But these features are sufficiently significant to enable…
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Elias Bickerman
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1935
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The proliferation of multicultural courses—not only at the University of Delaware, but across the country—forms a central part of what has come to be termed the “new academy.” By both broadening the…
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Sara Horowitz
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Newark, United States of America
Date:
1994