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Letter to Yehalel: On Creating a Yiddish (National) Newspaper
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To the Poet Yehuda Leib Levin (“Yehalal”)Warsaw, Wednesday, Heshvan 5655, 1894Dear Sir and distinguished author,Recent years have shown us that the national movement is not merely failing to increase…

Contributor:

Shmaryahu Levin

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1894

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Writing, Jewish identity, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter to Tuvie Feder
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“You are angry about the language into which my book has been translated? You sound like chirping birds and clattering animals and wild beasts in the forest! Kindly recall, my dear friend! What…

Contributor:

Jacob Samuel Bick

Places:

Brody, Austrian Empire (Brody, Ukraine)

Date:

1815

Subjects:

Language & linguistics, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Enlightenment, Language & Linguistics, Letters

Categories:

Language & Linguistics, Firsthand accounts, Letters