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When Berdichev, that famous commercial city, began, in the last few years, to fall from its high estate and the number of newly impoverished but respectable inhabitants kept increasing, I started to…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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(Volhynia, Ukraine)
Date:
1865
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Meeting of the Committee comprising: Chairman—Mr. M. Ussishkin; Committee Member—Mr. Ḥ. Ettinger. Candidates—Messrs. Ravnitzki and Raymist; Members of the Audit Committee—Mr. Bialik, Dr. Klausner, Mr…
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Ḥoveve Tsiyon Odessa Committee
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1911
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Given the socioeconomic life-conditions that obtain in the capitalist countries, the Jewish national group [folk-grupe]—as a people without its own national economy—will inevitably always feel a sharp…
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Po‘ale Tsiyon Central Committee
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(Russia, Russia)
Date:
1905
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For the purposes of preparing for this emancipation, four measures are proposed: 1) the establishment of a Jewish newspaper in Russian; 2) the establishment of a scholarly literary journal in Yiddish…
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Emmanuil Borisovich Levin
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Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1859
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Recognizing, that any national political institution created on the basis of national autonomy in all its forms, is of value only to the extent that it answers a number of definite necessities—needs…
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The Bund
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1905
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In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I issued a statute that effectively made Russian Jews liable to military service, as part of a policy that sought to transform the Jewish population into integrated subjects who…
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Artist Unknown
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Shkudy, Russian Empire
(Skuodas, Lithuania)
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1864–1867
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In our first series of discussions, we explored the struggle between the government and the Jews, which was initiated by the former and ended with its triumph over the latter; in the second…
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Mikhail Morgulis
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ca. 1863
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Bearing in mind:
that the course of capitalist development in those states in which Jews reside is not creating for them the kind of economic conditions that could lead to the…
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The Bund
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1905
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Jabotinsky, Vladimir Yevgenyevich
To the [Hebrew] University working committee in St. Petersburg
July 7, 1914
Dear Sirs,
1. J. C. T. transferred 500 Rubles to me on your behalf, the receipt of which…
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Vladimir Jabotinsky
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestin
(St. Petersburg, Israel)
Date:
1914
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May he be written and sealed immediately for good, long life—the honored rabbi, the splendid gentleman, the sharp and erudite, God-fearing, distinguished, may his name be honored, our teacher, R…
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Ḥayim Soloveitchik
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1900