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To the Readers (of Yerushalayim)
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As I was completing the first volume of this book of ours, I was on my way to Vienna, and the late scholar, Mr. [Peretz] Smolenskin of blessed memory, in his desire to complete the printing, wrote…

Contributor:

Abraham Luncz

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1886

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Zionism, Print, Jerusalem, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Lists & catalogues
Almanac for the Year 5675
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The Molad is Wednesday evening, 10 minutes and 9 halakim on 6 [6:10.9 pm] Iyar 5675—April 1915—Taurus—(29 days) [Hebrew Date] [Day of the week] [Christian Date] [Islamic Date] 1st Thursday Se…

Contributor:

Eliezer Ya‘akov Podhorzer

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Calendar, Holidays, Jewish identity, Prayer & liturgy, Torah study

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Lists & catalogues
Facing pages with Yiddish text in columns and some French and English text in margins.
Jewish Family Names in Ukraine
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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…

Contributor:

Samuel Weissenberg

Places:

Yelisavetgrad, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Kropyvnytskyy, Ukraine)

Date:

1929

Subjects:

Ethnography, Demographics, Family, Jewish identity, Language & linguistics

Categories:

Anthologies, Lists & catalogues