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Letter Addressed to the Conference of Constantinople in Favor of the Jews of the Orient
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Paris, December 1876 To Mr. President and Members of the Conference of Constantinople Sirs, You were nominated to discuss the interests of a great number of people in the Orient, and to accomplish a…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1877

Subjects:

Scholarship, Diaspora, Community, Sephardic, Journalism

Categories:

Historical writing, Journalism, Firsthand accounts
Seal of the Jewish Publication Society of America
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The Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) was founded in Philadelphia in 1888. (It had a number of precursors that did not last.) Today, JPS is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher…

Contributor:

Moses Ezekiel

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Israel/Israelis, Diaspora, Aesthetics, Scholarship

Categories:

Print & book culture
Drawing of a round seal with lion, lamb, child, snake, and Star of David which reads in English, "Israel's Mission is Peace."
A History of the Jews in Russia
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The idea of publishing a complete History of the Jews in Russia scarcely calls for extensive explanations or justifications. Russian Jewry, which quantitatively represents the most significant…

Contributor:

Iulli Gessen

Places:

Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Scholarship, Diaspora, Education

Categories:

Science & philosophy