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Letter to Shmuel Niger on the New Jewish Book
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Deeply respected Niger,I ask you to endure me in Russian.I want to express to you my happiness that we are approaching the time of the new Jewish book, a book created with love towards [the thing]…

Contributor:

El Lissitzky

Places:

Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Print, Jewish identity, Writing, Artists, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
On the Tasks of the Folkspartay
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We must not repeat the mistake made by western Jews . . . in denying their nationality and in assimilating completely in all areas of life except religion. . . . We eastern Jews have seen all the…

Contributor:

Simon Dubnow

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1906

Subjects:

Politics, Nationalism, Diaspora, Jewish identity, Writing, Letters

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters
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…

Contributor:

Boris Kletzkin

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Writing, Yiddish, Jewish languages, Poetry, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Lists & catalogues
Tolstoy and the Jews
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I have often been asked, and still am asked, whether I know from my frequent conversations with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy about his attitudes toward the Jews. I am asked whether I spoke with him on…

Contributor:

Ilya Ginzburg

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Writing, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Antisemitism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts