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Twelve-year old Ivan Demitrov, a fourth-grade student in the Bulgarian school, was scolded by his Bulgarian teacher for not sitting still in school on Friday, the tenth of this month. After playing in…
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Joseph Barishac
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Edirne, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
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1912
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A sick woman in a squalid rear tenement, so wretched and so pitiful that, in all the years since, I have not seen anything more appealing, determined me, within half an hour, to live on the East…
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Lillian Wald
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1915
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23 Tevet 5643, to the Publisher [Peretz Smolenskin]!The trials and tribulations that afflicted us in the land of our…
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Am Oylom
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United States, United States of America
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1882
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This is both Sinai and the uprooter of mountains, the book Sefer Hatashbeṣ, which was composed by the king, the great eagle, the renowned sage, the grand prince, the light of…
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Meir Crescas
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Europe, Holy Roman Empire (Europe)
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1739
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Let us return to our first matter, because these two territories, which we discussed, Masterdam [Amsterdam] and Igeltiera [England], in all of them they follow the Sephardic rite from the tribe of…
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Sasson Ḥay Castiel
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1700
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Noted for Service, the Jewish woman, especially in America, faces her greatest opportunities.
It has always been the same story for her. Her home has been the circle from which she has radiated…
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Belle Moskowitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1917
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The library is an integral part of public education.—“Public Libraries.”
The library and the public school occupy the most important…
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Helene Sheinberg
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1913
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Dear Editor,I am a Russian revolutionist and a freethinker. Here in America I became acquainted with a girl who is also a freethinker. We decided to marry, but the problem is that she has Orthodox…
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The Forward
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1906
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A foolish, misunderstood order by the Board of Education about cutting out “mandlen” [tonsils] from children’s throats is interpreted to mean a command to slit childrens’ throats and causes a wild…
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1906
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As soon as [Opotowski] came, he and the others were told that their chances of securing employment in a region where there are few Jews will be much better if they do not have such long beards. He and…
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Cyrus L. Sulzberger
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1907