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Printers’ Preface: Yiddish Translation of Sefer magishe minḥah
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With God’s help, we undertook to print the Torah, prophets, and writings with the commentary by Rashi, of blessed memory, and also with a Yiddish commentary, to understand the simple verse as it…

Contributor:

Menaḥem Man Amelander, Eliezer Soesman (Zusman) Rudelsum

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1725

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Bible, Midrash, Torah study

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage
The Voice of Gladness
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I have merited to make this book, which I named Kol sasson [The Voice of Gladness], for the reason that our masters of blessed memory said that it is obligatory for everyone…

Contributor:

Mordechai Seror

Places:

Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)

Date:

1884

Subjects:

Arabic, Jewish languages, Scholarship, Torah study, Education

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling, Religion & Theology
On Necessary Jewish Educational Reforms
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We can see that our sages, of blessed memory, likewise declared the Torah a weapon, as it has stood by us, enabling us to emerge triumphant in the wars for our religious and moral existence, in which…

Contributor:

Yitsḥak Ya‘akov Reines

Places:

Lida, Russian Empire (Lida, Belarus)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Education, Yeshiva, Jewish languages, Jewish identity, Torah study

Categories:

Political Culture, Religion & Theology, Pedagogy & Schooling