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The Semitic Nations
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With the same character, with which the individual human being is born, with the same he descends into the grave. The kindly disposed does not become ill-disposed, the judicious does not become…

Contributor:

Daniel Khvolson

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1871

Subjects:

Class, Nationalism, Philosophy, Scholarship, Theology

Categories:

History, Historical Writing
The Russification of Jews
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A major issue within the internal politics of the Russian government concerns the Russification of populations in our remote regions who follow different religions and are of other ethnic backgrounds…

Contributor:

Ilya Orshanski

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1877

Subjects:

Scholarship, Assimilation, Nationalism, Community, Ashkenazi

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Literature, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts
Tolstoy and the Jews
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I have often been asked, and still am asked, whether I know from my frequent conversations with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy about his attitudes toward the Jews. I am asked whether I spoke with him on…

Contributor:

Ilya Ginzburg

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Writing, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Antisemitism

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts
We, Jewish Socialists
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As socialists, we strive to overthrow the existing order, which is based on economic and political slavery, and to create on its ruins that collectivized state which alone can guarantee the full and…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1904

Subjects:

Socialism, Diaspora, Nationalism, Jewish identity, Human rights

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & Philosophy