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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…
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Joseph Nehama
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1913
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If wandering, considered as the liberation from every given point in space, is the conceptual opposite to being fixed to a given point, then the sociological form of “the stranger” presents the union…
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Georg Simmel
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1906
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MemorandumTo the Board of the Institute of Technical Sciences in Haifa Dear Sirs,The Supreme Institute of Technical Sciences, which the Board is working to establish, is a joy to all those concerned…
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Joseph Luria, Ben-Zion Mossinson, Yeḥiel Yeḥieli
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1913
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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)
Date:
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)
Date:
1918
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The compiler of this Manual, after many years of experience in the ministry, and frequent occasions of conferring the rite of Confirmation on his pupils, desires to place before his…
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Jacob Mendes de Solla
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Willemstad, Curaçao
Date:
1890
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A crucial and fundamental principle is the proper rearing of children. The Torah has stated: And you shall teach them [the words of Torah] to your children (Deuteronomy 11:19), for that is the…
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Isaiah Horowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1623