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La Buena Esperansa (The Good Hope)
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Hamburg, July 7. (Personal communication) In Smyrna, a newspaper will now be published in the Jewish-Spanish language commonly spoken there, entitled La Buena Esperansa. We have the prospectus dated…

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Die Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1842

Subjects:

Writing, Jewish languages, Ladino, Sephardic, Diaspora

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Firsthand Accounts, Journalism, Political Culture
Yiddish Literary Café
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The puritanically strict observance of the closing hour in London, the lack of continental-style coffee-houses, and perhaps also the isolated situation of the by no means untroubled British Isles may…

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Egon Erwin Kisch

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1924

Subjects:

Artists, Yiddish, Salon, Writing

Categories:

Literature, Journalism, Humor & Satire, Firsthand Accounts
All of the Books That Have Arrived at the Editor’s Desk
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    Future [Tsukunft], first compilation. Published by Tsukunft, St. Petersburg (1913). Ben-Ami, Big Fayvl and Little Fayvl (a short story). Published by Far undzere kinder…

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Boris Kletzkin

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Writing, Yiddish, Jewish languages, Poetry

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage, Lists & Catalogues
Faithful and Free: Collected Speeches and Lectures about Jews and Judaism
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One may consider this work a sort of memorial book that captures the history of the Jews and Judaism in our century. It does not narrate stories but reports; it presents personages about whom I was…

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Moritz Lazarus

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1887

Subjects:

Writing, Education, Philosophy, Jewish identity

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches