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Editorial Statement of Der nayer gayst
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Many Jews in America owe their spiritual-intellectual development to the progressive Yiddish-language periodicals that are published here. But the existing progressive Yiddish-language periodicals are…

Contributor:

Alexander Harkavy

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Yiddish, Politics, Education, Writing, Journalism

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Reportage
The Association “Concern for the Needy”
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When Berdichev, that famous commercial city, began, in the last few years, to fall from its high estate and the number of newly impoverished but respectable inhabitants kept increasing, I started to…

Contributor:

Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)

Places:

Russian Empire (Volhynia, Ukraine)

Date:

1865

Subjects:

Scholarship, Politics, Charity, Community, Yiddish, Journalism

Categories:

Historical writing, Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand accounts