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In our previous studies we attempted to prove that the first Jews in southern Russian were not Germanic, as is claimed by Graetz and other German scholars, but rather Bosporan and Asian, as they…
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Abraham Harkavy
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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1865
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With the same character, with which the individual human being is born, with the same he descends into the grave. The kindly disposed does not become ill-disposed, the judicious does not become…
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Daniel Khvolson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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1871
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Mark Antokolski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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1864
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As a symbol of the past—all sadness and humility—my mother’s face swims up and rises before my eyes. Her eyes two black abysses, anguish peering from them; her lips moist and rosy, a smile always…
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Dvora Baron
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
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1910
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We all recognize the tragic aspects of the Diaspora and we cannot hope to achieve in the Diaspora as full and complete national-cultural development as is possible for a nation living in its own…
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Simon Dubnov
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1909
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I have often been asked, and still am asked, whether I know from my frequent conversations with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy about his attitudes toward the Jews. I am asked whether I spoke with him on…
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Ilya Ginzburg
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1910
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This is how things go with your average Jew. But Hershele is not your average Jew. It wasn’t by chance that he was famous in all of Ostropol, in all of Berdichev, and in all of Vilyuisk.
Hershele…
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Isaac Babel
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1918
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“Is it true, dear mother,
What grandfather tells us?
That a chalice stands in heaven
Before the throne of God?
“And with each blow struck us
At the hands of cruel men,
Does a tear fall in our…
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Shimon Frug
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
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1882
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More than once I began writing to you, and each time I took my pen in my hand I felt in my inner heart that in writing I will say nothing—to see you face to face, heart to heart, and to fall on each…
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Zalman Anokhi
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Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1906
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Art is ultimately tantamount to nature if only we understand it somewhat more broadly and look at man as a natural phenomenon. As the saying goes, no matter how you try to drive nature out through the…
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Maximilian Syrkin
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1910