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Notes in Response to the Zionist Cause
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3 Shevat 5663 [January 31, 1903] From all the Zionist essays emerge that which we see with our very eyes: their entire purpose and effort is to instill the supposition among Jews that the Torah and…

Contributor:

Sholom Dov Ber Schneerson

Places:

Lubavitch, Russian Empire (Lyubavichi, Russia)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Zionism, Orthodox Judaism, Modernity, Piety, Nationalism

Categories:

Political Culture, Religion & Theology
In the Land of Israel
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I traveled from Odessa by boat for eleven days until we arrived in Jaffa—this was the path taken by the Russian company’s ships. However, this was not the true length of the journey, which was in fact…

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Mordechai ben Hillel ha-Kohen

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1890

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Israel/Israelis, Cities, Migration, Modernity

Categories:

Political Culture, Travel Writing, Firsthand Accounts
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…

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Psoy Korolenko

Places:

Moscow, Russia

Date:

2003

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Shtetl, Modernity, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Language & Linguistics, Literature