Showing Results 31 - 37 of 37
Public Access
Text
In our previous studies we attempted to prove that the first Jews in southern Russian were not Germanic, as is claimed by Graetz and other German scholars, but rather Bosporan and Asian, as they…
Contributor:
Abraham Harkavy
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1865
Categories:
Restricted
Text
As Yiddish poetry grew more modern, even modernistic, as it grew freer in rhythm, subtler in tonality, more artful and sophisticated in imagery, it also grew more Jewish—I was almost going to say more…
Contributor:
Abraham Tabachnik
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1950
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Then did Moses and the Children of Israel sing this song (Exodus 15:1). Before we explain the words of this song, it is appropriate to clarify its poetic structure. I maintain that we, the Israelite…
Contributor:
Isaac Abravanel
Places:
Date:
Early 16th Century
Categories:
Restricted
Text
This is a story that begins with J. It was the fifteenth of July 1930.
It’s about J; it’s about a consonant still a little vowelish, a little i-ish in the aftermath of a magic philology.
Were I not…
Contributor:
Hélène Cixous
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
2001
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
To think of the culture brought over by the immigrant Jews as a “mere” folk culture is a patronizing error, though an error often indulged in by later generations of American Jews. There was, of…
Contributor:
Eliezer Greenberg
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1976
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Image
The fourth letter, ד, has the shape of an open doorway and its name, דָּלֶת, dalet, is cognate with דֶּלֶת [deles], door. The ד also alludes to דַּל, pauper, who knocks on doors, begging for alms. In…
Contributor:
Michael L. Munk
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1983
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
[ . . . ] I further wish to say: it is not sufficient that we worry ourselves with the young kids who will grow into goats—we must also be concerned with the mature goats who have already grown horns…
Contributor:
A. Litai
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917