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Czernowitz Conference Speech Celebrating Yiddish
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Honored Conference: Three liberating moments in Jewish history created our movement. I don’t want to be a prophet, and to proclaim that we are now experiencing a new historical moment, that we are…

Contributor:

Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Scholarship, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Hasidism, Jewish languages

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Speeches
Higher School for Jewish Studies
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The problem concerning the establishment of a Higher School for Jewish studies, which was recently raised by the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia (OPE), should be…

Contributor:

Ben-Zion Dinur

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Education, Talmud, Theology, Jewish identity, Scholarship

Categories:

Political Culture, Pedagogy & Schooling
The Association “Concern for the Needy”
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When Berdichev, that famous commercial city, began, in the last few years, to fall from its high estate and the number of newly impoverished but respectable inhabitants kept increasing, I started to…

Contributor:

Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)

Places:

Russian Empire (Volhynia, Ukraine)

Date:

1865

Subjects:

Scholarship, Politics, Charity, Community, Yiddish

Categories:

Historical writing, Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand accounts
Letters to Shimon Dubnow
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To Mr. Sh. Dubnow, St. Petersburg Moscow, Jan. 8, 1907 I received your letter, and thank you for everything you told me about. . . . I have already heard about the classes you are giving on Genesis…

Contributor:

Ahad Ha-Am

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1906–1907

Subjects:

Zionism, Scholarship, Jewish identity, Education, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters