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Kovno, Thursday, 20 Heshvan 5629 [5 November 1868]
His Honor, the Great Sage and Sweet Singer of Israel,
Judah Leib Gordon, greetings!
My dear esteemed gentleman! While I was still in Suwalki…
This Sixth Part is the last part of the “First Period” of Jewish history, which we have called “Israel in its Land.” Part Seven, which follows, will be the first part of…
“People generally say: the Torah before anything else. I, however, would say: Jews are holy, and they come first.” [Seder Eliyahu Rabba 14.2]This is the history of how Jewish thinking became enslaved…
[ . . . ] In regard to the boycott [of German goods], in my view, the rabbis ought to have stood aloof, at a distance, and not to have involved themselves with this at all, as this is an issue…
O God of Hosts, our God from of old,
Was it for this that You selected our ancestors from days of yore
That You took their descendants as an inheritance for Yourself
To set them up as the target of…
6. “It is proper,” etc. The phraseology employed by the Tur is “And one should cover one’s head so that one should not be in a state of bareheadedness”—this is taken from the words of the Ba‘al ha-…
A member of the Greek Church once addressed me in the following words:—“Do you know wherefore you have no longer a king of your own people? It is because you have rejected the faith of…
Speech delivered at the May meeting of agitators in Vilna in 1895.
Dear comrades!
Today, every group of the fighting proletariat has marked successes in its activities. It will be most appropriate to…
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women did not participate in the free professions regularly because at that time institutes of higher education had not yet opened their doors to them. The…
Professor Fishl Shneerson (Warsaw): Out of great respect for YIVO…