Showing Results 1 - 2 of 2
Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue): On Genesis
Public Access
Text
Image
The Book of Me‘am lo‘ez is the explication of the entire Hebrew Bible in Ladino, explaining the way of life which a person must lead as the sacred law commanded, and also to know about all that…

Contributor:

Jacob Huli

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1730

Subjects:

Oral Torah, Jewish languages, Ladino, Writing

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Printed page of Hebrew text framed by arch with columns of garlands and a border of Hebrew text.
How Does One Produce Culture?
Public Access
Text
When the [Yiddish language] culture conference gathered in Czernowitz [in September, 1908], I was against it. When the culture conference gathered in Berlin, I voiced my doubts about it. Now that a…

Contributor:

Hillel Zeitlin

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Exile, Oral Torah, Jewish languages, Philosophy

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & Philosophy, Religion & Theology