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The World Convention of YIVO (Yiddish Scientific Institute) upon the Tenth Anniversary of Its Founding
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Professor Fishl Shneerson (Warsaw): Out of great respect for YIVO…

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YIVO

Places:

Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1936

Subjects:

Yiddish, Scholarship, Education, Communal organizations, Writing

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
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
Five Orations Given in Padua by Lelio Della Torre
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Lelio Della Torre

Places:

Padua, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (Padova, Italy)

Date:

1829

Subjects:

Philosophy, Theology, Education, Scholarship

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
The Documentary Hypothesis and the Composition of the Pentateuch
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The tour of inspection on which I invited you to accompany me during this course has come to an end. We must now retrace our steps and review the results achieved by our tour…

Contributor:

Umberto Cassuto

Places:

Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)

Date:

1934

Subjects:

Theology, Writing, Scribes, Scholarship

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches, Biblical Commentary