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(Continued from issue 76 [of Ha-Tsefira])The commandment of hospitality is well-developed in our city, and particularly in the mellah. But emissaries from the kollelim in the “Four Lands” stay with…
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Isaac Ibn Ya‘ish
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Essouira, French Protectorate of Morocco (Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco)
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1891
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To the Board of the Institute of Technical Sciences in Haifa
Dear Sirs,
The Supreme Institute of Technical Sciences, which the Board is working to establish, is a joy to all those…
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Joseph Luria, Ben-Zion Mossinson, Yeḥiel Yeḥieli
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1913
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Why does the name of Orpheus, “the first of the world’s singers,” as Lefranc de Pompignan called him, appear on the title-page of this volume? Because he was not merely “the first singer,”…
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Salomon Reinach
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1909
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Werner Sombart is undoubtedly one of the most striking personalities in the Germany of to-day. Born in 1863, he has devoted himself to research in economics, and has contributed much that is valuable…
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Mortimer Epstein
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, Great Britain)
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1913
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Avrom Golomb
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1919
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One may consider this work a sort of memorial book that captures the history of the Jews and Judaism in our century. It does not narrate stories but reports; it presents personages about whom I was…
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Moritz Lazarus
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1887
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To his excellency, the great sage, the learned and famous rabbi
Adolf H. Neubauer, the Head Librarian
Of the Government Library in Oxford, England! My dear Sir and Rabbi!
Although I have not hitherto…
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Abraham Dubzhevitch
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1890
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To Professor Cesare Lombroso in Turin. Most esteemed and dear teacher!
I dedicate this book to you, in order to express aloud that I would not have been able to write this…
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Max Nordau
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Kingdom of Italy (Italy, Italy)
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1896
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The compiler of this Manual, after many years of experience in the ministry, and frequent occasions of conferring the rite of Confirmation on his pupils, desires to place before his…
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Jacob Mendes de Solla
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Willemstad, Curaçao
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1890
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Rabbi Eliezer said: Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her indecency [m. Sotah 3:4]
The rabbis wrote that this refers only to the Oral Torah; but the Written Torah—even though one should not…
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Chofetz Chaim
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1918