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I want to be a Pole. You have my word!
I want to reach the peak of Polishness
But I can find no way to manage:
They always shout: “You’re a jew!”
When I defend the jews from slander,
Hoping to…
Contributor:
Leo Belmont
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1900
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This small volume which I now present to you, my fellow readers, is an offshoot of the numerous saplings that I have planted for myself over the course of many days, nay years; for ever…
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Abraham Ber Gottlober
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Józefów, Kingdom of Poland (Józefów, Poland)
Date:
1837
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Ever since the written word in Russia became a bit freer, the country has released a torrent of Yiddish publications of every sort. Various publishing houses have appeared, and every one of them is…
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Abraham Cahan
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1907
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Understanding the positive and negative aspects of the language elements introduced by the intelligentsia is particularly important for Yiddish philology, since the task of philology does not end with…
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Ber Borochov
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1913
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[ . . . ] A few remarks on foreign words in the literature which for the sake of brevity is here called Talmudic, may not be out of place in this preface.The intercourse between the Jews of the…
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Marcus Jastrow
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1903
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This tale is very different from the other stories and more interesting. [ . . . ]
A melámmed was in his home, and he was so starved that his belly…
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A. Litvin, Sonya the Wise Woman (Sonya Naimark)
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1917
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“Are you at peace? Hast thou killed and also taken possession?”
(examples of interrogative sentences in a grammar book)
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Dan Pagis
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1982
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[…] In my confusion
I didn’t know how to answer my detractors, those
who brand me
a poseur because I pronounce the c in the Castilian manner or I say fellow instead of guy (I love)
miscegenations
(pe…
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José Kozer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1983
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This is a story that begins with J. It was the fifteenth of July 1930.
It’s about J; it’s about a consonant still a little vowelish, a little i-ish in the aftermath of a magic philology.
Were I not…
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Hélène Cixous
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Paris, France
Date:
2001
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The fourth letter, ד, has the shape of an open doorway and its name, דָּלֶת, dalet, is cognate with דֶּלֶת [deles], door. The ד also alludes to דַּל, pauper, who knocks on doors, begging for alms. In…
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Michael L. Munk
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1983