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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
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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
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I was born a Jew, and as I attained self-awareness, I realized that almost four thousand years of human history were working to present me with questions: How was I to understand myself as a Jew, how…
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Henryk Nusbaum
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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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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To Our Brethren and Sisters in the Exile, Peace Be with You!
“If I help not myself, who will help me?”
(Hillel)
Nearly two thousand years have elapsed since, in an evil hour, after an heroic…
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BILU
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1882