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Letter to Bialik on Hebrew Culture
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Society of “Hebrew Language Lovers” [Ḥoveve sefat ‘ever]Moscow BranchMaruseyka, 10 Kosmodimian AlleyTelephone: 180-53Moscow, 24 Adar 5677 [March 18, 1917]To Mr. Ḥ.N. Bialik in Odessa,Honored Friend!Th…

Contributor:

Shoshana Persits

Places:

Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Philosophy, Scholarship, Education

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Letter to Ludwig Strauss on Zionism
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 October 10, 1912Berlin-GrunewaldDelbrückstr. 23 Dear Mr. Strauß!That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…

Contributor:

Walter Benjamin

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Zionism, Jewish identity, Philosophy, Modernity

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Letter to the Alliance Israélite Universelle
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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…

Contributor:

Joseph Nehama

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Philosophy, Community, Jewish identity, Writing, Scholarship

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling, Letters