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Letter of Rabbinic Appointment to the City of Posen
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When the leaders of the people were assembled, all the tribes of Israel together, on the evening of the twenty-first day of Adar 5572, to oversee the affairs of the general community and the needs of…

Contributor:

Akiva Eger

Places:

Poznan, French Empire (Poznan, Poland)

Date:

1814

Subjects:

Rabbis, Communal organizations, Leadership, Profession, Dowries

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Political Culture, Letters
Letters to Sholem Aleichem
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June 17, 1888 [June 29 in the Gregorian calendar]Dear Sir:Several days ago, I received an undated and terse postcard from one of my friends, a person close to me, H. Epstein, in which the following…

Contributor:

Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Zamość, Russian Empire (Zamość, Poland)

Date:

1888

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Education

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Fliglman on the Left
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Warsaw, October 17, 1932 Dear friend S. Niger, When we speak about left and right, we should, first of all, enclose both words in thick quotation marks, and then we have to remember that true left…

Contributor:

Aaron Zeitlin

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1932

Subjects:

Politics, Yiddish, Philosophy, Theology, Writing

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Letters