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On page 101, reference is made to the history of the Jews in this State. Since that part of the work was printed, M. M. Noah, Esquire, of New-York, has kindly favoured us with the following additional…
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Mordecai Manuel Noah
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1849
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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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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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What the Zionist Organization has to aim at is to lay down in Palestine as soon as possible a populous and thriving agrarian foundation, in order to build up…
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Franz Oppenheimer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1914
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In the 18th of the Month of Elul: the 5404 year from the Worlds creation, and according to common compute, in 1644. Aaron Levi, otherwise called Antonius Montezinus c…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1652
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In one of the recent issues of Ha-Melits, which for unknown reasons I only received today, I read about Mr. W. Shor’s complaint about the Serbian Jews’ refusal to accept Jews, persecuted in other…
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Simon Bernfeld
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Belgrade, Serbia
Date:
1886
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Dear Friend,You asked me in your last letter to write about America, what kind of country it is and what life is like here. I had to smile as I read your words. [ . . . ]In order to describe America…
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Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1895–1905
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The author had a tradition from his ancestors, also based on a book of his genealogy that was lost in all the upheavals of the expulsion and the persecutions, that this holy and lofty family, whose…
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Barukh Uziel Hazaketto
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1550
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Illustration of a baseball diamond in a short primer on the game of baseball published in the summer of 1909 in the Yiddish-daily Forverts (Forward). Some of the words in the picture are…
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1909
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This is an age of progress; and, surrounded as we are to-day by every evidence of the astounding advance that the nineteenth century has carried with in its train, I feel that I am flinging down a…
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Julia Richman
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1893