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The science of Folk-lore tries to explain in a scientific way the origin, growth and development of popular literature; it discovers the sources from which the popular fancy has drawn its materials…
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Moses Gaster
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Oxford, United Kingdom
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1886
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To Professor Cesare Lombroso in Turin. Most esteemed and dear teacher!
I dedicate this book to you, in order to express aloud that I would not have been able to write this…
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Max Nordau
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Kingdom of Italy (Italy, Italy)
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1896
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The Jews in Poland still have a very demanding and holy task ahead of themselves. Or, to be more exact, they have a holy, lofty, most important and most responsible mission. Hasidism was born in…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1916
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The behavior of the Jews in most places generally follows the behavior of the [local] Christians—(Sefer ḥasidim [Book of the Pious, 13th century] § 1106)
The present volume is a continuation…
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Moritz Güdemann
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1880
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The task of this book was determined by its being part of the Grundriß [der Gesamtwissenschaft des Judentums; Fundamental Study toward the Comprehensive Knowledge of Judaism] series. Based on…
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Ismar Elbogen
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Berlin, Germany
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1913
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January 8. Lecture by [Leo] Fantl on Goldhaupt, “he tosses the enemy like a barrel.”
Insecurity, dryness, tranquility, in these everything will pass.
What do I have in common with Jews? I have…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1914
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We are calling upon the Hungarian general public and especially our Jewish coreligionists to support a new undertaking. Our undertaking does not seek to compete with an existing one; rather, it…
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Wilhelm Bacher, József Bánóczi
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
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1884
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I am a Jew, and the Hebrew language is sweeter to me than the language of any other nation, for it is the heritage of our ancestors from time immemorial, a beloved remnant from days of yore…
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Heinrich Graetz
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Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland)
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1888
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This is the statement of the author, Mordechai Ha-kohen, son of My Lord, My Father Rabbi Yehudah, son of Marco (Mordechai), son of Abraham Israel Hakohen, born in Tripoli, Africa, on the twenty-fifth…
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Mordechai ha-Kohen
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Ottoman Empire (Libya, Libya)
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1907
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Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer’s cover design for Istoria evreiskago naroda (History of the Jewish People) features a title with dramatically stylized letters and a gold and black pattern that evokes…
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Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1914