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The speaker brings examples and proofs from other nations, like Switzerland, Belgium, and even different states in Germany, where the spoken language is radically different from the official state…
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Noah Pines
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1917
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It is my pleasant duty, as chairman of the local committee, to extend to you all a hearty welcome to our city and to our Congress, the first Jewish Women’s Congress. It was with some misgiving that I…
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Hannah Solomon
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1893
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Ahead of the first verses of the Eastern European Jewish poets, I would like to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, how much more Jargon [Yiddish] you understand than you believe you do.
I am not actually…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Prague, Czech Republic
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1912
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I would like to say that this meeting is a meeting of the members of the Executive Committee and of the Advisory Council of the Kehillah. It is not a meeting that is open to the public or to the press…
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Judah L. Magnes
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1914
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[ . . . ] But before we come to analyze the dreadful calamity [i.e., the drought] that has befallen us, and before we come to see what is the putrid humor harbored in our midst…
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Shimon Aghasi
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
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1912
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So said Jacob ben R. ḥayim Ibn Adoniyahu of blessed memory, after completing the proofreading of Seder taharot, I intended to apologize, since the subject is not habitual, and the source texts are few…
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Daniel Bomberg, Jacob Ibn Adoniyahu
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1523
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And we, in our humble opinion, state that it was done well, although the labor was very great, and it ran very quickly, and according to our sharpness of wit at that time we examined it well, for we…
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Jacob Ibn Adoniyahu
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1524
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And thus was finished the book Petah DebaraiIn the name of the living God my redeemer and rockIn the year of the creation 306On the 29th day of TishriEdited by the Hebrew grammarianElijah the Levita…
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Cornelio Adelkind
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1546
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To the Jewish People: The second of November, 1917, is an important milestone on the road to our national future; it marks the end of an epoch, and it opens out the beginning of a new era. The Jewish…
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WZO London Bureau
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1917
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Education has become the cry of all progressive trade, unions. Our International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was one of the first to recognize the importance of education. At our recent…
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Abraham Baroff
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918