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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…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910
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One may think about Zionism as one wishes: one may consider it an aberration or an idea that has a claim on the future; one may regard it from the heights of a fantastical cosmopolitanism as a…
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Osias Thon
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Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
1896
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In our past lie the answers to all the problems that our present time raises, and in it also lie the keys to the secret gates of our future. [ . . . ]
Onto ground already prepared since the time of…
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Samuel Peltyn
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1885
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The purpose of this work is to acquaint the Yiddish reader with the theory, structure, and various forms of belletristic literature in general and Yiddish literature in particular.The need for…
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A. B. Rosenshteyn
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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Motivated by the book by Mrs. R. Centnerszwerowa: There is a heated struggle going on about public schooling in the [Polish] Kingdom [of the Russian Empire]. Various speakers at a range of meetings…
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Majer Bałaban
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Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
1898
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Cover page of G. Bocz’s Yiddish-language biology textbook, Geviksn: Baarbet Avrom Golomb (Plants: Reworked by Avrom Golomb).
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Avrom Golomb
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1919
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The Jews in Poland still have a very demanding and holy task ahead of themselves. Or, to be more exact, they have a holy, lofty, most important and most responsible mission. Hasidism was born in…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1916
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I was born a Jew, and as I attained self-awareness, I realized that almost four thousand years of human history were working to present me with questions: How was I to understand myself as a Jew, how…
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Henryk Nusbaum
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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I am a Jew, and the Hebrew language is sweeter to me than the language of any other nation, for it is the heritage of our ancestors from time immemorial, a beloved remnant from days of yore…
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Heinrich Graetz
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Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland)
Date:
1888