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The Affirmation of the Diaspora
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We all recognize the tragic aspects of the Diaspora and we cannot hope to achieve in the Diaspora as full and complete national-cultural development as is possible for a nation living in its own…

Contributor:

Simon Dubnow

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Diaspora, Zionism, Nationalism, Yiddish, Polemics, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters
The Hit of the Century
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The Jewish theme in Ru.Shtetl is a metaphor. The closest mainstream parallel explaining the essence of what Patrick Lisidze conceived of is Siniavskii’s pseudonym, Abram Terts. Terts’s Jewishness was…

Contributor:

Psoy Korolenko

Places:

Moscow, Russia

Date:

2003

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Shtetl, Modernity, Jewish identity, Language & Linguistics, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Language & Linguistics