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Kitsur shene luḥot ha-berit (Abridged Two Tablets of the Covenant)
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There are a few Torah scholars who are rich in knowledge and whose mental grasp is abundant, while others do not possess an intellectual grasp akin to theirs, for everyone possesses mental grasp in…

Contributor:

Yeḥiel Mikhel Epstein

Places:

Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)

Date:

1683–1693

Subjects:

Talmud, Scholarship, Language & linguistics, Education, Yiddish, Ethics

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Ethics
A Great Announcement
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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…

Contributor:

Alexander Zederbaum

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1863

Subjects:

Scholarship, Assimilation, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Journalism

Categories:

Historical writing, Journalism, Firsthand accounts