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The library should be set up in the center of the district it serves, preferably on a quiet street where there is less noise and dust. Dry premises must…
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OPE (Society for Promotion of Culture Among Jews in Russia)
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1914
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The speaker brings examples and proofs from other nations, like Switzerland, Belgium, and even different states in Germany, where the spoken language is radically different from the official state…
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Noah Pines
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917
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Boys, honor the pregnant woman. Treat her carefully and care for her, for who knows the merit of the essence already formed in the womb?
The greatest individuals on earth, pillars of society, and…
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Ḥayim Zuta
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1908
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Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…
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Avram Naon
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909
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Throughout the duration of the exile of Israel, Jews worshiped God in awe, and from the time that freedom was granted to them and the exile of the body was made easier, the exile of the soul increased…
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Shaul Brach
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Kasho, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Košice, Slovakia)
Date:
1911
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With the grace of God, Friday, before the Shabbat of the reading of Noah, 5672 [1911].
To our fellow Hasidim (in the city of Turov),
My stomach turned and my ears burned on hearing the terrible news…
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Israel Perlow
Places:
Stolin, Russian Empire (Stolin, Belarus)
Date:
1911
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There once lived a little shepherd.
One time he fell asleep in the vale.
The shepherd woke: woe to me!
The sheep were not in the vale.
Woe is me,
Woe and oh
Without my sheep
Where should I go.
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Yeḥiel Heilprin
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1912
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The Jewish population in the United States has grown from a quarter of a million to about one million. Scarcely a large American town but has some Russo-Jewish names in its directory, with an educated…
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Abraham Cahan
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United States, United States of America
Date:
1898
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This trip abroad to study the function of women’s agricultural schools was accomplished via a partnership of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce with the Humanitarian Society, which, at the end…
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Aurelia Josz
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Milan, Kingdom of Italy (Italy)
Date:
1905
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Mordechai ha-Kohen
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Ottoman Empire (Libya, Libya)
Date:
1907