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A few days before the surrender of Germany, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, sent out a call to American newspaper editors which may be…
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David P. Boder
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1949
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For the past few years, both in France and Germany, I was awed by the valiant struggle of people who, though only recently liberated from indescribable cruelty, exhibited extraordinary powers of…
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Leo W. Schwarz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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The author is not among those who adhere to the doctrine that “money talks.” Knowledge talks, conscience talks, but money is merely counted—more by some, less by others. If the author…
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Isaac Rivkind
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1959
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The very lack of a self-contained territory that has so far disqualified the study of Yiddish from NDEA [the National Defense Education Act] support endows Ashkenazic Jewry with exemplary value for a…
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Uriel Weinreich
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1963
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Why do I begin with the parachutists? Were I to trace the story of Jewish resistance and rescue chronologically, I would have to use a different order. I would have to begin with the gradual…
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Marie Syrkin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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Perhaps the most difficult question we have been asked in the course of compiling this catalog has been, “What exactly is it?” Having realized quite early that there are no preexisting…
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The Jewish Catalog
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1973
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Modern Yiddish literature focuses upon the shtetl during its last tremor of self-awareness, the historical moment when it is still coherent and self-contained but already…
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Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1953
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In the tercentenary year of Jewish settlement in America, this volume is offered as evidence that the past decade—a mid-century point—has seen the publication of some of the most…
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Harold U. Ribalow
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1955
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Most of the stories in this collection are modern; a few are ancient. They were written in Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Russian and English, yet all are, to a discerning eye, very clearly Jewish. [ . . .…
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Saul Bellow
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1963
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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective Movement…
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Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, N. Minkov
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1919