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A Bintel Brief
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Dear Editor,I am a Russian revolutionist and a freethinker. Here in America I became acquainted with a girl who is also a freethinker. We decided to marry, but the problem is that she has Orthodox…

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The Forward

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1906

Subjects:

Marriage, Orthodox Judaism, Secular Judaism, Family, Modernity

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Firsthand Accounts, Reportage, Letters
Letter to the Editor: On Zionism and the Mizrachi
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God bless. Lida, 17th of Tammuz 5664To the distinguished editor, the great and wise rabbi, may his name be praised and glorified, etc., our teacher R. David Katzburg, publisher of the journal Tel…

Contributor:

Yitsḥak Ya‘akov Reines

Places:

Lida, Russian Empire (Lida, Belarus)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Zionism, Piety, Jewish identity, Orthodox Judaism, Mizrahi

Categories:

Political Culture, 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…

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Yitsḥak Twersky

Places:

Shpikov, Russian Empire (Shpykiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Hasidism, Orthodox Judaism, Rabbis, Jewish identity

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Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Letters
An Open Letter
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With God’s help, may the Lord order blessing, life, and peace for the leaders and fine men, preeminent individuals, etc., and for their head, the Great Rabbi, etc.Hear, congregation of the Lord and…

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Shomrei ha-Dos Society

Places:

Sziget, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania)

Date:

1886

Subjects:

Sectarianism, Orthodox Judaism, Halakhah, Politics

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Religion & Theology, Firsthand Accounts, Letters