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How Does One Produce Culture?
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When the [Yiddish language] culture conference gathered in Czernowitz [in September, 1908], I was against it. When the culture conference gathered in Berlin, I voiced my doubts about it. Now that a…

Contributor:

Hillel Zeitlin

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Exile, Oral Torah, Jewish languages, Philosophy, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy
The Religion of Israel: From Its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile
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If one examines the biblical account of the origins of Israelite monotheism and the story of its battle with and eventual triumph over paganism, he will discover a…

Contributor:

Yehezkel Kaufmann

Places:

Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)

Date:

1937

Subjects:

Exile, Scholarship, Oral Torah, Scribal culture, Temple

Categories:

Biblical commentary
Minḥat Yehudah (The Offering of Judah): Commentary on Ma‘arekhet ha-elohut (The Divine Hierarchy)
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When I Judah, the son of my master, the wise and righteous R. Jacob ḥayyat, peace be upon him, was in Spain, I tasted a little honey, and my eyes were enlightened. And I took it upon myself to seek…

Contributor:

Judah Ḥayyat

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1495–1498

Subjects:

Mysticism, Exile, Hunger, Poverty, Oral Torah, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography