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Letter from Crémieux Agricultural Colony to Peretz Smolenskin
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23 Tevet 5643, to the Publisher [Peretz Smolenskin]!The trials and tribulations that afflicted us in the land of our…

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Am Oylom

Places:

United States, United States of America

Date:

1882

Subjects:

Migration, Economic life, Community, Jewish languages, Agriculture

Categories:

Political Culture, Speeches, Reportage
Discorso circa il stato de gl’Hebrei et in particolar dimoranti nell’inclita Città di Venetia (Discourse Concerning the Condition of the Jews, and in Particular Those Living in the Illustrious City of Venice): On Jewish Commerce
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The Hebrews have been taught and instructed more than any other nation in the school of hardship under the rigorous discipline of that necessity, because they are deprived of real estate, forbidden…

Contributor:

Simone Luzzatto

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1638

Subjects:

Cities, Economic life, Travel, Community, Antisemitism

Categories:

History, Political Culture, Reportage
A Proposal to Make Salonica an International City
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To the Committee of the Zionist Organization in Berlin Salonica, January 3, 1913 Mr. President, The question of Macedonia was addressed in London and will soon be resolved. What will be done with…

Contributor:

David Florentin

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Zionism, Cities, Economic life, Nationalism, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Reportage
Lacking a Family Life
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One of the causes of the failings in the lives of the young workers [in Palestine] is certainly the lack of family life. Here, too, there is room for observation. Here we have a phenomenon that is not…

Contributor:

Aaron David Gordon

Places:

Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Ottoman Palestine (Israel)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Economic life, Family, Health, Modernity, Marriage

Categories:

Political Culture, Reportage