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On Language as Such and on the Language of Man
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If in what follows the nature of language is considered on the basis of the first chapter of Genesis, the object is neither biblical interpretation nor subjection of the Bible to objective…

Contributor:

Walter Benjamin

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1916

Subjects:

Language & linguistics, Theology, Bible, Scholarship

Categories:

Science & philosophy
An Argument: On Expanding Our Literature
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I hear it said: On the contrary, inasmuch as the things most essential for the life of a people have been forcibly taken from our people’s soul, and we stand miraculously in midair like the mem and…

Contributor:

Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Diaspora, Assimilation, Jewish identity, Language & linguistics, Education

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling
Kitsur shene luḥot ha-berit (Abridged Two Tablets of the Covenant)
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There are a few Torah scholars who are rich in knowledge and whose mental grasp is abundant, while others do not possess an intellectual grasp akin to theirs, for everyone possesses mental grasp in…

Contributor:

Yeḥiel Mikhel Epstein

Places:

Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)

Date:

1683–1693

Subjects:

Talmud, Scholarship, Language & linguistics, Education, Yiddish, Ethics

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Ethics