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[ . . . ] I further wish to say: it is not sufficient that we worry ourselves with the young kids who will grow into goats—we must also be concerned with the mature goats who have already grown horns…
Contributor:
A. Litai
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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The secretary rises and begins to read out the indictment:“It has been nearly twenty years since Yiddish began to show signs of becoming a language, to stretch its limbs and demonstrate some forward…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1888
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The problem of creating a body of translated literature in Yiddish is very important and must be solved systematically. This serves the interests of our original [Yiddish] literature best.
[I will…
Contributor:
Moyshe Litvakov
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918–1919
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God be praised, it is now a year since we began printing our supplement to Ha-melits, the Kol mevaser, the world’s first newspaper in plain Yiddish. At first, many people ridiculed us, but time has…
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Alexander Zederbaum
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863
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The Yiddish language is our mother tongue. But is it the language of education, by means of which we can best understand each other? Does anyone even make the suggestion that…
Contributor:
Shiye Mordkhe Lifshits
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863