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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: On National Education
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Signs of a new spirit among certain circles of the Jewish intelligentsia can be detected even in the private sphere, within the four walls of their homes. It happens—admittedly, not very often, but…

Contributor:

Esther Frumkina

Places:

Minsk, Russian Empire (Minsk, Belarus)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Education, Children, Holidays, Jewish identity, Class

Categories:

Political Culture, Speeches
I. M. Weissenberg Memorial
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We live in a prison. We have been degraded to the level of homeless and uncared-for animals. When we…

Contributor:

Abraham Lewin

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1941

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Education, Death, Mourning

Categories:

Political Culture, Speeches