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What the Zionist Organization has to aim at is to lay down in Palestine as soon as possible a populous and thriving agrarian foundation, in order to build up…
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Franz Oppenheimer
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New York, United States of America
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1914
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New York January 17, 1915
Dear Mrs. Julius Rosenwald,
Let me congratulate you and Palestine upon having secured as you tell me in your telegram, a “splendid response from a local” [Chicago Jewish…
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Henrietta Szold
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1915
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The idea of reopening the doors of Portugal and its colonies to Jews is not new. It is born out of a spirit of non-Jews and Jews, who know firsthand the nobility and high-mindedness of Portuguese…
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Wolf Terló
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Lisbon, Portugal
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1915
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A searing poetic response to a 1916 survey, by Martha Gruening, a tireless advocate for women’s rights and African American rights.
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Martha Gruening
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1916
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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
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1917
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Some impassioned readers among us will not admit that our one and only literature has a double language. After the Czernowitz conference, one of our Hebrew writers (now living in America) swore…
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Bal-Makhshoves
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1918
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The People’s Art College in Vitebsk, fulfilling the needs of the whole Western Land, is a ripe necessity, especially since our Revolutionary time compels us with unusual force to undertake the…
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Marc Chagall
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
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1918
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There is no doubt that the Jewish parochial school is the easiest and most alluring method of preserving Jewish religious life in…
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Alexander Dushkin
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1918
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One of the causes of the failings in the lives of the young workers [in Palestine] is certainly the lack of family life. Here, too, there is room for observation. Here we have a phenomenon that is not…
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Aaron David Gordon
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Ottoman Palestine (Israel)
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1918
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Love is a net that nature spreads out in order to multiply humankind. (Love also exists among animals.) Only complete love is true love. True love does not have any higher or lower…
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Ben-Tsien Liber
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1918