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We are calling upon the Hungarian general public and especially our Jewish coreligionists to support a new undertaking. Our undertaking does not seek to compete with an existing one; rather, it…
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Wilhelm Bacher, József Bánóczi
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1884
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I am a Jew, and the Hebrew language is sweeter to me than the language of any other nation, for it is the heritage of our ancestors from time immemorial, a beloved remnant from days of yore…
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Heinrich Graetz
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Breslau, German Empire (Wroclaw, Poland)
Date:
1888
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Hebrew:Woe be to me, in my old age,
That it should have to come to this:
That I stand in judgment here
With a shameless servant girl
And her vulgar band of friends.
No one knows me anymore!
Yiddish:O…
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“Eliyahu”
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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ca. 1906
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Yidishes tageblatt
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1906
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Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…
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Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1907
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We are becoming so accustomed to the remarkable enterprise of the authorities of the Temple, East End Jewry’s playhouse in Commercial Road, that we cease to wonder at anything they now attempt in…
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1912
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The press of Solomon Proops was one of the most prolific and well-known Hebrew presses in eighteenth-century Europe. The printer’s mark used by Proops (which does not appear on all his works) depicts…
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Solomon Proops
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1730
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Part One, in which are shown all the rules necessary for understanding language, how to compose and write therein prose and verse, with the appropriate elegance and measure.
To the Reader:
Although I…
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Moses Gideon Abudiente
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1633
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In your merciful, compassionate name. In the Arabic language they say, “in the name of God, merciful and compassionate.” And in the Persian tongue they say, “in the name of God, generous and…
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Unknown
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Isfahan, Afsharid Dynasty (Isfahan, Iran)
Date:
1740
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We [of the Polish weekly journal Jutrzenka (Dawn), October 25, 1861] have already had the opportunity to mention a number of periodicals devoted entirely to Jewish affairs. We have also named three…
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Daniel Neufeld
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1861