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A dialogue in the land of the living between our teacher, R. Moses Maimonides, the Spaniard, and our Teacher Moses, son of Menaḥem [Mendelssohn] of Dessau, and an anonymous third person.
On the day of…
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Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1794–1797
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A lion drew his final breath,
And animals were bereft by his death.
There was no one to rule the realm,
So everyone wanted to take the helm.
When the animals realized their quandary,
They discussed…
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Solomon Ettinger
Places:
Odesa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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Mid–19th century
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“Well, as you know already, the story is about Esterka, the daughter of the Jew to whom this house belongs. She was ten years old when he came here, and tall of her age, with black hair and large blue…
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Karl Emil Franzos
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Stuttgart, German Empire
(Stuttgart, Germany)
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1873
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O Russians, you who love your fellow men! You would shudder from the bottoms of your kind hearts if you saw the effect of that terrible accusation which Jews who were eyewitnesses to the unjustified…
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Lev Nevakhovich
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1803
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In short, in addition to being affluent, our Reb Hoshea Heffler was also steeped in the holy books. He was a traditional Jew, who could not abide the maskilim, the enlightened ones. He always used to…
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Isaac Meyer Dik
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1865
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I know a town in White Russia [Belarus] on the River Dnieper. Its name is Shklov. I was born there, went to heder there, which is why I know it so well.
The flame of life burns calmly…
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Zalman Shneour
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Vilna, Second Polish Republic
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1929
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Awake, my people! How long will you slumber?
The night has passed, the sun shines bright.
Awake, lift up your eyes, look around you—
Acknowledge, I pray you, your time and your place. . . .
The…
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Judah Leib Gordon
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1866
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Has he had the temerity to speak perversely against the foundations of the faith and of the Torah, and mocked the words of our sages of blessed memory recorded in the Mishnah and the Gemara, or has he…
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Saul Berlin
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1784
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Admittedly, it is true that all our hearts will be filled with feelings of astonishment when we recall the giant steps that the new generation has taken upon the peaks of the sciences and forms of…
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Abraham Harkavy
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1864