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Note to the Reader: Masoret ha-masoret
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This is to announce to all interested in my book that when the head of the printers, the princely Daniel Bomberg, the Christian, decided to print the Twenty…

Contributor:

Elye Bokher

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1538

Subjects:

Bible, Christian-Jewish relations, Writing, Translation, Print

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
The Black Rooster
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This story admittedly took place a long time ago and furthermore in a far-off land—in England, in fact. Yet in spite of everything, it is still important and worthy of being…

Contributor:

Isaac Meyer Dik

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1889

Subjects:

Love, Writing, Translation, Violence, Theology

Categories:

Literature, Fiction, Religion & Theology
Colophon: Elye Bokher’s Petaḥ devaray
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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…

Contributor:

Cornelio Adelkind

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1546

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Christian-Jewish relations, Writing, Print, Translation

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
The System of Translations
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The problem of creating a body of translated literature in Yiddish is very important and must be solved systematically. This serves the interests of our original [Yiddish] literature best. [I will…

Contributor:

Moyshe Litvakov

Places:

Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1918–1919

Subjects:

Translation, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Writing, Artists

Categories:

Literature, Language & Linguistics
Letter to Judah Leib Gordon
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Kovno, Thursday, 20 Heshvan 5629 [5 November 1868] His Honor, the Great Sage and Sweet Singer of Israel, Judah Leib Gordon, greetings! My dear esteemed gentleman! While I was still in Suwalki…

Contributor:

Miriam Markel-Mosessohn

Places:

Kovno, Russian Empire (Kaunas, Lithuania)

Date:

1868

Subjects:

Writing, Language and linguistics, Translation, Women

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Prospectus (from Stybel’s Publishing House)
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Edited by David Frishman and published by Stybel

Contributor:

Avraham Stybel

Places:

Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Writing, Artists, Translation, Art, Scholarship

Categories:

Political Culture, Lists & Catalogues