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More than once I began writing to you, and each time I took my pen in my hand I felt in my inner heart that in writing I will say nothing—to see you face to face, heart to heart, and to fall on each…
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Zalman Anokhi
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Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1906
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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…
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Yehoshu‘a Ḥana Ravnitski
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1909
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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…
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Joseph Nehama
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1913
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You said, in the beginning of the second page, “The young man then adopted the Muslim religion.” Please omit this because I did not change the faith of my parents, although I respect the three…
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Ya‘qub Sannu‘
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Paris, France
Date:
1911
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911
Dear Mrs. N.,
I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1911
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New York January 17, 1915
Dear Mrs. Julius Rosenwald,
Let me congratulate you and Palestine upon having secured as you tell me in your telegram, a “splendid response from a local” [Chicago Jewish…
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Henrietta Szold
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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It is plain for all to see, sir, that our youth is abandoning our language—but why? Because in their eyes it is a dead and useless tongue. All our efforts to make them appreciate the importance of the…
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
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Paris, France
Date:
1880
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To his excellency, the great sage, the learned and famous rabbiAdolf H. Neubauer, the Head LibrarianOf the Government Library in Oxford, England! My dear Sir and Rabbi!Although I have not hitherto…
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Abraham Dubzhevitch
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1890
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If there is one branch of study that is entirely neglected in our schools it is the history of our forefathers from the time of their dispersion across the globe until the present. . . . [True,] our…
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Mercado Joseph Covo
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1892
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Community. From the point of view of religious practices, the Jewish community of Hamadan is one of the least homogeneous of Persia. It is not unusual to find in the same family a mother who is a…
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Albert Confino
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Qajar, Iran (Qajar Āb-e Bālā, Iran)
Date:
1908