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Letter to Alfred Michaux
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Dear Sir, You ask me to write extensively about my life. As far as I can, I will gladly do so, but, unfortunately, I won’t be able to do all that much. Here are the reasons: maybe for future…

Contributor:

Ludwik Zamenhof

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Interfaith relations, Zionism, Jewish languages

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Letters, (Auto)biography
Letter to Yehalel: On Creating a Yiddish (National) Newspaper
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To the Poet Yehuda Leib Levin (“Yehalal”)Warsaw, Wednesday, Heshvan 5655, 1894Dear Sir and distinguished author,Recent years have shown us that the national movement is not merely failing to increase…

Contributor:

Shmaryahu Levin

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1894

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Writing, Jewish identity

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Letters to Sholem Aleichem
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June 17, 1888 [June 29 in the Gregorian calendar]Dear Sir:Several days ago, I received an undated and terse postcard from one of my friends, a person close to me, H. Epstein, in which the following…

Contributor:

Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Zamość, Russian Empire (Zamość, Poland)

Date:

1888

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Education

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Letters