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When we say that we want to remain Jews, and raise our children as Jews, we run the risk of being befogged by one of those meaningless phrases in which the Jews of this generation are particularly…
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Samson Benderly
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911
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One hundred and odd years ago, the walls that imprisoned us Jews in a mental ghetto fell, torn down by Christian advocates of human rights who are assured of our eternal gratitude. After having been…
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Moritz Goldstein
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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In the past there were no children among Jews, only “little Jews without beards,” so neither was there any children’s literature. Boys in the traditional heder used to read Ḥumesh [The Pentateuch]…
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Shmuel Niger
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1913
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Many skeptics have denied the existence of Jewish music. Some lump it together with Oriental music; others refuse to admit its independence a priori, by virtue of the nomadic fate of the Jews, who…
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Society for Jewish Folk Music
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1913
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Moses, from whose loins I sprung,
Lit by a lamp in his blood
Ten immutable rules, a moon
For mutable lampless men.
The blonde, the bronze, the ruddy,
With the same heaving blood,
Keep tide to the…
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Isaac Rosenberg
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French Republic (France, France)
Date:
1918
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Manke:Wait, let’s signal Rivkele quietly. [Basha and Reyzl exit. Manke takes a stick and very softly taps a corner of the ceiling. We can hear the girls outside hopping around in the puddles, taking…
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Sholem Asch
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1907
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Scene: The living room of the Herming family house. The walls of the home contain valuable paintings by many of the greatest nineteenth-century Danish national romantic painters.
State…
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Henri Nathansen
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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1912
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In this volume I have made a selection of religious and holiday songs.
Actually, they constitute a single group, since in reality it is hard to draw a sharp dividing line between the first group and…
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Noah Pryłucki
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1910–1911
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Dedicated to Dr. Zunz, the grandmaster of Jewish scholarship, on his 90th birthday.
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Wilhelm Bacher
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1884
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To make the history of antisemitism complete, omitting none of the manifestations of this sentiment and following its divers phases and modifications, it is necessary to go into the history of Israel…
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Bernard Lazare
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1894