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The lack of a Hebrew songbook for Jewish schools in the East is known and felt by all Hebrew teachers generally and music teachers, in particular. Although several collections have been…
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Avraham Tsvi Idelsohn
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1912
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We can see that our sages, of blessed memory, likewise declared the Torah a weapon, as it has stood by us, enabling us to emerge triumphant in the wars for our religious and moral existence, in which…
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Yitsḥak Ya‘akov Reines
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Lida, Russian Empire (Lida, Belarus)
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1913
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Moise Gadol
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1916
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Iehudah Machabeu
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1655
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Judah Monis
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Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies (Cambridge, United States of America)
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1735
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For I heard slander, fear was on every side [see Psalms 31:14], as the son of the despised maidservant slanders the son of the mistress, saying, “Those miserable Jews, they had a single language from…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1579
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I understood very early that life is a serious business. I do not remember committing any of those childish pranks that everyone keeps in his distant memory. From the age of four I was sent to the mel…
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Gabriel Arié
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Davos, Switzerland
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1906
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The speaker brings examples and proofs from other nations, like Switzerland, Belgium, and even different states in Germany, where the spoken language is radically different from the official state…
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Noah Pines
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1917
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Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…
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Avram Naon
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909
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The Jewish population in the United States has grown from a quarter of a million to about one million. Scarcely a large American town but has some Russo-Jewish names in its directory, with an educated…
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Abraham Cahan
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United States, United States of America
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1898