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Letter to Zalman Shneour: On Children’s Education
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Why should I write to you about myself? Nothing has happened in the meantime in my personal life. My son is still with me, as before. He is still an Extern. He knows the gymnasium [university…

Contributor:

Yehoshu‘a Ḥana Ravnitski

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Children, Jewish identity, Education, Family, Holidays, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
My Tiny, Ugly World
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Never have I been content with my narrow, dark, gloomy world, and always am I aware of the contrast between the great, beautiful world and my tiny, ugly world. And always I say, “The place is too…

Contributor:

Yitsḥak Twersky

Places:

Shpikov, Russian Empire (Shpykiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Hasidism, Orthodox Judaism, Rabbis, Jewish identity, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Letters
Letters to Shimon Dubnow
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To Mr. Sh. Dubnow, St. Petersburg Moscow, Jan. 8, 1907 I received your letter, and thank you for everything you told me about. . . . I have already heard about the classes you are giving on Genesis…

Contributor:

Ahad Ha-Am

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1906–1907

Subjects:

Zionism, Scholarship, Jewish identity, Education, Christian-Jewish relations, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter to Mendele
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Dedication to My Dearly Beloved Grandfather, Reb Mendalle Mocher SephorimTo my dear grandfather, greetings!Stempenyu, my first long novel, which I inscribe to you, is yours; not only because I have…

Contributor:

Sholem Aleichem

Places:

Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1886

Subjects:

Writing, Jewish identity, Love, Music, Yiddish, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters