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How Does One Produce Culture?
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When the [Yiddish language] culture conference gathered in Czernowitz [in September, 1908], I was against it. When the culture conference gathered in Berlin, I voiced my doubts about it. Now that a…

Contributor:

Hillel Zeitlin

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Exile, Oral Torah, Jewish languages, Philosophy

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy
Jews Will Accept Hardship Only in the Holy Land
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The fate of this idea of settling the Holy Land with Jews is like that of the fairy prince transformed by evil magic until rescued. The contemporary fairy godmothers of our people deserve our…

Contributor:

Yeḥiel Mikhl Pines

Places:

Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)

Date:

1892

Subjects:

Migration, Israel/Israelis, Zionism, Economic life, Exile

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy
Lesser Ury (and Jewish Art)
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The strongest testimony to life is productivity, and the most direct form of productivity is art. That is why those of us who announce a life of the Jewish people inquire into the possibility of…

Contributor:

Martin Buber

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1901

Subjects:

Art, Nationalism, Exile, Artists, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy
To the Readers of Literarishe monatsshriften
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Literature cannot survive, cannot develop freely and expansively, if it depends on an underdeveloped reader, if it satisfies the spiritual-aesthetic needs only of those who have no access to the…

Contributor:

Shmuel Niger, A. Vayter, Shmarye Gorelik

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Philosophy, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Exile, Writing

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy