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After the war the world seemed vast, unknowable and boundless. However, my mother went back to living in the world as best she could, happily, for she had a happy nature. Her spirit could never grow…
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Natalia Ginzburg
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Turin, Italy
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1963
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The author of the book in question hides behind various pseudonyms, which are promptly presented as voices from the beginning of time and as figures both familiar and strange: for he is himself a…
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Edmond Jabès
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Paris, France
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1976
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The purpose of this work is to acquaint the Yiddish reader with the theory, structure, and various forms of belletristic literature in general and Yiddish literature in particular.The need for…
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A. B. Rosenshteyn
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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Mr. [Israel Ḥayim] Taviov says: “Those who vehemently demand a large and broad literature in the Hebrew language, comprising all branches of wisdom and science—they are the ultranationalists of the…
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Ben-Avigdor
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
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1895
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To the editorial board of Ha-Nir, greetings.For some time, I have wanted to tell our honorable writers what a simple householder [ba‘al ha-bayit] like me wants from our literature.By using the term si…
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Alexander Ziskind Rabinovitz
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1909
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For it is clear that language with all its associations does not introduce us at all into the inner area, the essence of things, but that, on the contrary, language itself stands as a barrier before…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1915