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Ladies and Gentlemen:
The word “feminism” is interpreted in different ways. Some would grant [women] exaggerated rights. Others limit their demands to their simplest form without arriving at a proper…
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Graziella Benghiat
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İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1913
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The speaker brings examples and proofs from other nations, like Switzerland, Belgium, and even different states in Germany, where the spoken language is radically different from the official state…
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Noah Pines
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1917
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It is my pleasant duty, as chairman of the local committee, to extend to you all a hearty welcome to our city and to our Congress, the first Jewish Women’s Congress. It was with some misgiving that I…
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Hannah Solomon
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Chicago, United States of America
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1893
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Ahead of the first verses of the Eastern European Jewish poets, I would like to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, how much more Jargon [Yiddish] you understand than you believe you do.
I am not actually…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Prague, Czech Republic
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1912
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[ . . . ] But before we come to analyze the dreadful calamity [i.e., the drought] that has befallen us, and before we come to see what is the putrid humor harbored in our midst…
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Shimon Aghasi
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1912
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The prophet of consolation prophesied (Isaiah 60: 4–5): “Lift up your eyes and look about; they have all gathered and come to you. Your sons shall be brought from afar, your daughters like babes on…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925
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When we consider the quotidian life of our society, it is impossible to ignore the phenomenon of “avoidance”; namely, it seems that the public at large is unwilling to think too much about the…
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Fishel Schneersohn
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Mandate Palestine (Huldah, Israel)
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1943
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“All right,” someone will say, “granted you are a Pole. But in that case, why ‘we jews’?” To which I answer: because of blood “Then racialism again?” No, not racialism at all. Quite the contrary.
Th…
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Julian Tuwim
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New York, United States of America
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1944
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Remember, I am with you: I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. —Genesis 28:15.
From the Midrash Shoḥer tov. “For the leader. Of the servant of the Lord, of David…
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Pinḥas de Segura
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1840
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So said Jacob ben R. ḥayim Ibn Adoniyahu of blessed memory, after completing the proofreading of Seder taharot, I intended to apologize, since the subject is not habitual, and the source texts are few…
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Daniel Bomberg, Jacob Ibn Adoniyahu
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1523