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What Language Did the Jews in Poland Speak?
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Motivated by the book by Mrs. R. Centnerszwerowa: There is a heated struggle going on about public schooling in the [Polish] Kingdom [of the Russian Empire]. Various speakers at a range of meetings…

Contributor:

Majer Bałaban

Places:

Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)

Date:

1898

Subjects:

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

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy
An Anti-Zionist’s Comment to the Polish Jewish Intelligentsia
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I was born a Jew, and as I attained self-awareness, I realized that almost four thousand years of human history were working to present me with questions: How was I to understand myself as a Jew, how…

Contributor:

Henryk Nusbaum

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1899

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Zionism, Life cycle, Assimilation

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy, Firsthand accounts