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Letters to Sholem Aleichem
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June 17, 1888 [June 29 in the Gregorian calendar]Dear Sir:Several days ago, I received an undated and terse postcard from one of my friends, a person close to me, H. Epstein, in which the following…

Contributor:

Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Zamość, Russian Empire (Zamość, Poland)

Date:

1888

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Education, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters
Fliglman on the Left
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Warsaw, October 17, 1932 Dear friend S. Niger, When we speak about left and right, we should, first of all, enclose both words in thick quotation marks, and then we have to remember that true left…

Contributor:

Aaron Zeitlin

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1932

Subjects:

Politics, Yiddish, Philosophy, Theology, Writing, Letters

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters
The Affirmation of the Diaspora
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We all recognize the tragic aspects of the Diaspora and we cannot hope to achieve in the Diaspora as full and complete national-cultural development as is possible for a nation living in its own…

Contributor:

Simon Dubnow

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Diaspora, Zionism, Nationalism, Yiddish, Polemics, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters