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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, Religion & Theology
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
The Sociological Significance of ‘The Stranger’
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If wandering, considered as the liberation from every given point in space, is the conceptual opposite to being fixed to a given point, then the sociological form of “the stranger” presents the union…

Contributor:

Georg Simmel

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1906

Subjects:

Philosophy, Antisemitism, Exile, Scholarship

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling