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Blasio Ugolino, Giovanni Cattini
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1744
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“Moses received the Torah from Sinai” [m. Avot 1:1]:
R. [Ovadiah] from Bartenura has explained this to mean “from the One revealed at Sinai.” And there, when God revealed Himself at Sinai, Moses…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan, Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1614–1617
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God, blessed be He, knew very well that the people of Israel would be scattered among the nations and that most of them would not be able to understand the holy tongue [Hebrew]. Therefore our sages…
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Ḥayim Druker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1711
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Linguistic folklore in literature is a component of realistic style. At first, new or renewed literature is usually realistic. The same reasons that introduce…
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Meir Viner
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1928
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Proverbs are the wisdom of the people, the fruit of common sense, and in particular, are distilled from general experience. They are to the moral…
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Leopold Dukes
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Leipzig, German Confederation (Leipzig, Germany)
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1844
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“You are angry about the language into which my book has been translated? You sound like chirping birds and clattering animals and wild beasts in the forest! Kindly recall, my dear friend! What…
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Jacob Samuel Bick
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Brody, Austrian Empire (Brody, Ukraine)
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1815
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The distinction between religious and secular music is not universally admitted. There is a considerable group of people, some of them very learned in the art and science of sound, who claim that…
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Joseph Reider
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Philadelphia, United States of America
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1918
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I hear it said: On the contrary, inasmuch as the things most essential for the life of a people have been forcibly taken from our people’s soul, and we stand miraculously in midair like the mem and…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1897
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The goal of the natural method of language acquisition is not simply to teach people how to speak in as little time possible; its goal is to inculcate the language to the learner in an easy and…
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Yitsḥak Epstein
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Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1898
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[ . . . ] Similarly, the Russian Jews use the traditional rhyming couplet in those verses that chronicle a historical event or inculcate an ethical truth. The real folksongs, however, are set to music…
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Leo Wiener
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1898