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It is not uncommon to find children of Jewish socialists with first names like “William Morris,” “Lassalle,” or “Bebel.” But we will definitely not find any children named after Karl Marx.
Morris…
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Borukh Charney-Vladek
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1918
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[Title Page]And You Shall Cook and Eat (Deuteronomy 16:7)Livre de Cuisines [Cookbook]This book concerns all types of foods, appropriate for rich and poor, for holidays and other days. The composer of…
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Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)
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1900
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The Molad is Wednesday evening, 10 minutes and 9 halakim on 6 [6:10.9 pm]
Iyar 5675—April 1915—Taurus—(29 days)
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[Day of the week]
[Christian Date]
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Thursday
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Eliezer Ya‘akov Podhorzer
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Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)
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1914
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I am a Jew, and the Hebrew language is sweeter to me than the language of any other nation, for it is the heritage of our ancestors from time immemorial, a beloved remnant from days of yore…
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Heinrich Graetz
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Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland)
Date:
1888
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[ . . . ] In the early autumn of 1918 we entered a new circle of Bolshevik hell, the period of mass Red Terror. The murder of Uritskii and…
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Simon Dubnov
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Riga, Latvia
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1934–1935
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This book will discuss the people of Israel (the name by which the Jewish people were known), showing the history of their joys and…
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N. M. Nikolskii
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Smolensk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Smolensk, Russia)
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1920
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For Jews, social hygiene embraces the entire domain of religious laws and customs of Judaism on maintaining the purity and health of the body. These traditions partially, and certainly at their core…
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Felix Theilhaber
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1927–1930
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The history of the Jews in the last century and a half has turned about one central fact: that of Emancipation. But what has Emancipation really meant to the Jew? The generally accepted view has it…
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Salo W. Baron
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1928
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The question of family names in general and of Jewish family names in particular is interesting in many ways. Unfortunately, Jewish scholarship has thus far devoted very little attention to this…
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Samuel Weissenberg
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Yelisavetgrad, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Kropyvnytskyy, Ukraine)
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1929
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Hebrew reborn—but, was it ever dead? Or, if it was, how can a dead language be born again?
The millions of Jews all over the world who say their daily prayers in Hebrew, not only understanding but…
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Shalom Spiegel
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1930