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A. Many great, wise, genius, and righteous men beseeched me to publish in a book that which I received from scribes and…
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Yisroel Berger
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Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1909
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The question of family names in general and of Jewish family names in particular is interesting in many ways. Unfortunately, Jewish scholarship has thus far devoted very little attention to this…
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Samuel Weissenberg
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Yelisavetgrad, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Kropyvnytskyy, Ukraine)
Date:
1929
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The Age Composition of the Population in the Researched ShtetlekhThe problem of organizing the work resources correctly and rationally is closely connected to the age composition of the population…
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Y. Osherovich
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Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Belarus)
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1932
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The written Hebrew agadah [lore and legends transmitted in rabbinic texts] is the primary literary form that was dominant for several centuries in the world of unbounded folk and individual creation…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik, Yehoshu‘a Ḥana Ravnitski
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1908
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She: I can’t hide it anymore
I’ll reveal my bitter, heavy heart
I can’t even wait till tomorrow
Because oh does it smart!
He…
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Yehudah Leib Cahan
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912
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This work is an anthology of various texts that provide precious foundations, crucial for the knowledge of the wisdom of kabbalah, hidden secrets that were revealed through the mightiest of heroes…
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Jacob ben Ḥayim
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1911
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Some of the proverbs I have collected appeared previously in the yearbook Der hoyz-fraynd published by M. Spektor in Warsaw (1888–1889). The collection I am now presenting to the reader as…
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Ignatz Bernshteyn
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Leipzig, Germany
Date:
1907
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When one comes to collect legends of the Hebrews and Jews from the many diverse strata of our literature, one must be armed with all the secrets of the schools and fruits of visionary…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Leipzig, Germany
Date:
1912
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The Central Committee of the German Zionist Federation [Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland] asked me to collect the Jewish essays by Moses Hess and to edit them on the occasion of the…
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Theodor Zlocisti
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1905