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Gentlemen, having received incorrect information in the last column of the previous issue, we reported that the discords in our community had been settled. We also promised to give a detailed account…
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Rafael Uziel
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1846
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Along the quay, near the White Tower, there is a café where two young Jewish girls from Salonica sing every day, including Shabbat. In truth we do not find their behavior as low as that of other young…
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Yeremiah (El Yoron)
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1900
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Dear Vara of my soul,
Wherever it may be, I am always hit in the face by a pet peeve, some vexation and angst, due to the misbehavior of certain of our women who still do not know whether they are in…
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Moise B. Soulam
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New York City, United States of America
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1928
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Conscious of the fact that our national work is of no value as long as there is no measurably large and measurably strong Hebrew workers party in the land of Israel, we have set ourselves the goal of…
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Yosef Aronovich
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1907
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Honored colleagues!
One sole consideration persuades me to accept the very high office to which your vote has appointed me, when dwindling forces barely enable the modest duties of teachers and of…
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Ernesto Nathan
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1906
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What is this Jewish Prague that is so much talked about here? We don’t know it in a way that would allow us to define it or draw its image. But we know that it is a reality that lives in us and has an…
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Robert Weltsch
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Prague, Czech Republic
Date:
1917
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Assembled as we are, to re-establish by commemoration, (2) the Congregation of this remnant or small portion of the house of Israel; your expectation of a brief sketch of our History, and particularly…
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Jacob de la Motta
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Savannah, United States of America
Date:
1820
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As for the number of the Jews, one cannot precisely determine it, not even having firm knowledge of the places in which they dwell. Regarding the ten tribes that were captured by…
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Simone Luzzatto
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1638
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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…
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Simone Luzzatto
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1638
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The Jewish population in the United States has grown from a quarter of a million to about one million. Scarcely a large American town but has some Russo-Jewish names in its directory, with an educated…
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Abraham Cahan
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United States, United States of America
Date:
1898