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In our first series of discussions, we explored the struggle between the government and the Jews, which was initiated by the former and ended with its triumph over the latter; in the second…
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Mikhail Morgulis
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
ca. 1863
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Khaye-Gite came. She is a typical grandmother. She talks to God quietly, politely. She wasn’t too keen on telling us about being a grandmother. She just told us a few things. She knows lots…
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S. An-ski
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Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1912–1913
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Jabotinsky, Vladimir Yevgenyevich
To the [Hebrew] University working committee in St. Petersburg
July 7, 1914
Dear Sirs,
1. J. C. T. transferred 500 Rubles to me on your behalf, the receipt of which…
Contributor:
Vladimir Jabotinsky
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1914
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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
Places:
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
Places:
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
Places:
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