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In order to survive, a newspaper needs numerous subscribers, the help of the community, paid publications, the aid of the friends of education, the generosity of the nation, and the support of the…
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Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1877
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So, is it not an injustice for girls to be so neglected that the refined feelings which are God’s gift to all mankind are often destroyed in them? But if you speak to Jewish parents they will tell you…
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Urye Kahan, Alexander Zederbaum
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1863
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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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Alexander Zederbaum
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1863
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When Berdichev, that famous commercial city, began, in the last few years, to fall from its high estate and the number of newly impoverished but respectable inhabitants kept increasing, I started to…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Russian Empire (Volhynia, Ukraine)
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1865
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A Conversation between Abou Khalil and Abou Naddara Zarqa at Café Riche, Boulevard des Italiens, on the Night of the 14th of July 1878, Paris[ . . . ] Abou Khalil:Good Lord, I’ve missed your banter…
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James Sanua
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
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1878
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Warsaw, 15 December 1861
Mr. Medard’s reply to our letter dated 15 November has not, in the least, surprised us; we had indeed expected it, exactly in the form in which it is composed…
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Al. K.
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)
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1862
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A major issue within the internal politics of the Russian government concerns the Russification of populations in our remote regions who follow different religions and are of other ethnic backgrounds…
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Ilya Orshanski
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1877