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The Yiddish language is our mother tongue. But is it the language of education, by means of which we can best understand each other? Does anyone even make the suggestion that…
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Shiye Mordkhe Lifshits
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1863
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Every single nation, if it wishes to place its foot on the threshold of the family of nations on the earth, must prepare a constitution for itself stating its integrity, and to bring with it the book…
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Yitsḥak Bernfeld
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Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
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1881
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In 1867, starting in Austria, the idea of equality made its way into normal constitutional life in Galicia. This wasn’t an easy thing to accomplish, due to prejudices that had been cultivated over…
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Meir Balaban
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1931
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For the first time in its career, Judaism is challenged by the Jew more vigorously even than by the Gentile. However anxious the modern Jew may be to remain a Jew, he finds himself today in a quandary…
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Mordecai M. Kaplan
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New York City, United States of America
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1927
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The educated Englishman can live his entire life without ever once giving a moment’s thought to his people’s historical destiny or purpose. He knows instinctively that his people are alive and intact…
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Mikhail Gershenzon
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1922
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In 1913 a Jewish girls’ school in Vilna called Yehudiyah, which provided supplementary education for girls aged seven to eighteen, published a publicity pamphlet in Yiddish…
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Paula Hyman
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New York, United States of America
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1995
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Since the song of victory is silent
About the man now overcome.
I will serve as Hector’s witness.
There once was a Germany, we all know it, that belonged to the world, and that was received by the…
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Leo Baeck
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London, United Kingdom
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1946
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The body and face of the colonized are not a pretty sight. It is not without damage that one carries the weight of such historical misfortune. If the colonizer’s face…
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Albert Memmi
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Paris, France
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1957
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[ . . . V]iewed from the broad historic perspective, it is not at all surprising that American Jewry has not yet produced those great cultural achievements for which we are all…
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Salo W. Baron
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New York, United States of America
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1962
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God be praised, it is now a year since we began printing our supplement to Ha-melits, the Kol mevaser, the world’s first newspaper in plain Yiddish. At first, many people ridiculed us, but time has…
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Urye Kahan
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863