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After having arranged for fresh provisions and all kinds of refreshments, we set sail again, sailing away from land. Due to the wind’s silence, we proceeded into the sea without sailing, drifting for…
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Abraham Levie
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1750
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So since we are in the midst of writing a song,
We will write also about the destruction of the holy community of Kremzir,
Even though this happened five years before,
In the year 1643, on the 9th of…
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Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
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Kremzir, Holy Roman Empire (Kroměříž, Czech Republic)
Date:
1648
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Published after his visit to the Jewish Colonization Association colonies in Argentina in 1908, Chasanowitch’s report is a scathing critique of the administration’s treatment of farmers.
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Leon Chasanowitch
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Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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Among the wrestlers competing in the current tournament in the Panorama [Building] on Karowa Street, fighting for the 1912 Polish Championship, is a Jew called Vildman.He has become quite famous, in…
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Menachem Kipnis
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1912
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Clothing is an art, and it requires talent from women and men alike. This talent, however, is innate to people. It is a talent that every woman and every man can develop by observing…
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Tashrak (Yisroel Yosef Zevin)
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912
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[ . . . ] Jewish immigration to South America has now been going on for fully twenty-five years, primarily to Argentina. This immigration began with such energy and…
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Peretz Hirshbein
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1914
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One of our greatest sins in the eyes of the Jewish bourgeoisie has been that in the course of the thirty-five years of our existence as a party we have not ceased to defend the simple idea that we…
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Henryk Erlich
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1933
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The Yiddish language is our mother tongue. But is it the language of education, by means of which we can best understand each other? Does anyone even make the suggestion that…
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Shiye Mordkhe Lifshits
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863
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One of the most important things that the government has introduced in Russia to improve education among Jews is the decree that each community must choose a…
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Berish Rozenblum, Menashe Margolis
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1864
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The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in Amsterdam…
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Menaḥem Man Amelander
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1743