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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

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Political Culture, Science & philosophy
Neḥmad ve-na‘im (Nice and Pleasant)
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Nicolaus Copernicus, from [Polish] Prussia, was a great man, who was more proficient in the field of astronomy than all the wise men of his age. Indeed, all the wise men of our time unanimously attest…

Contributor:

David Ganz

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

Beginning of the 17th Century

Subjects:

Astronomy, Exile, Gentiles, Jewish identity

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Astronomy
Manuscript page of concentric circles with Hebrew words and stars in the outer circles, and Hebrew text on top and bottom of page.
Table of Jewish Assimilation in “The Jews of Today”
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The Four Sections of Jewry Jewish AssimilationNumber. Typical Representatives.Economic Condition.Religious Outlook.EducationBirth- rate per 1,000 souls.Percentage of Mixed Marriages.Conversions…

Contributor:

Arthur Ruppin

Date:

1904

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Demographics, Orthodox Judaism, Migration, Exile

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Lists & catalogues
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…

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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