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Letter on His Conversion
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A few days after receiving your precious letter of 5 November 1854, I began collating [the pages of my book], which took me until New Year’s eve to finish. But what a chasm in between! I began the…

Contributor:

Daniel Khvolson

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

ca. 1855

Subjects:

Conversion, Christianity, Circumcision, Parenthood

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
On the Tasks of the Folkspartay
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We must not repeat the mistake made by western Jews . . . in denying their nationality and in assimilating completely in all areas of life except religion. . . . We eastern Jews have seen all the…

Contributor:

Simon Dubnov

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1906

Subjects:

Politics, Nationalism, Diaspora, Jewish identity, Writing

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Note on the Emancipation of the Jews of Russia
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For the purposes of preparing for this emancipation, four measures are proposed: 1) the establishment of a Jewish newspaper in Russian; 2) the establishment of a scholarly literary journal in Yiddish…

Contributor:

Emmanuil Borisovich Levin

Places:

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1859

Subjects:

Emancipation, Politics, Antisemitism, Media, Education

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Political Culture
Letter to Shmuel Niger on the New Jewish Book
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Deeply respected Niger,I ask you to endure me in Russian.I want to express to you my happiness that we are approaching the time of the new Jewish book, a book created with love towards [the thing]…

Contributor:

El Lissitzky

Places:

Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Print, Jewish identity, Writing, Artists

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters