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Letter to Tuvie Feder
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“You are angry about the language into which my book has been translated? You sound like chirping birds and clattering animals and wild beasts in the forest! Kindly recall, my dear friend! What…

Contributor:

Jacob Samuel Bick

Places:

Brody, Austrian Empire (Brody, Ukraine)

Date:

1815

Subjects:

Language & linguistics, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Enlightenment, Language & Linguistics, Letters

Categories:

Language & Linguistics, 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