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A Din Toyre mit Gott/Der kadish fun rabi Levi Yitshok (A Court Case with God/The Kaddish of Rabbi Levi Isaac)
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“Good morning, Master of the universe! I, Levi-Yitzchok of Berdytschev, have come to hold Judgment with You concerning Your people Israel. What have You against Israel? Why have you imposed…

Contributor:

Levi Isaac of Berdichev

Places:

Berdyczów, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Berdychiv, Ukraine)

Date:

ca. 1790

Subjects:

Music, Exile, Hasidism, Yiddish, Nationalism

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music, Popular Poetry, Poetry
The Affirmation of the Diaspora
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We all recognize the tragic aspects of the Diaspora and we cannot hope to achieve in the Diaspora as full and complete national-cultural development as is possible for a nation living in its own…

Contributor:

Simon Dubnov

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Diaspora, Zionism, Nationalism, Yiddish, Polemics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Letters