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The holy tongue is a language like no other. All other tongues exist only by agreement, each nation having agreed upon its language. But the holy tongue is the one…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1937
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And after all the argumentation and consideration
The Jew will arise and speak to us:
“In our blessed country all voices of the Torah are at the doorway
And all lessons will captivate the hearts of…
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Avigdor Hameiri
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Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1910
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It is possible to see the promise of a beginning of Levantine literature—rooted in the realities of the Middle East and influenced by European culture—in Le livre de Goha le Simple [Goha the Fool] by…
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Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973
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Penina V. Adelman
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1998
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The inception of literature is certainly not merely a matter of ideas and ideology. Not only are the contents connected to the forms and dependent on them, but the development of the forms has its own…
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Gershon Shaked
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Afula, Israel
Date:
1971
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A new letter-writing guide containing many examples of various kinds of important letters written with great diligence, great sensitivity, and in the best style; these letters also include very nice…
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Hirsh Leon D’or
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1893
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Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…
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Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1907
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Most of the stories in this collection are modern; a few are ancient. They were written in Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Russian and English, yet all are, to a discerning eye, very clearly Jewish. [ . . .…
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Saul Bellow
Date:
1963
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Understanding the positive and negative aspects of the language elements introduced by the intelligentsia is particularly important for Yiddish philology, since the task of philology does not end with…
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Ber Borochov
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1913
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[ . . . ] A few remarks on foreign words in the literature which for the sake of brevity is here called Talmudic, may not be out of place in this preface.
The intercourse between the Jews of…
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Marcus Jastrow
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
New York, United States
Date:
1903