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What a Decade! 1914–1924
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Nineteen nineteen was one of the most difficult years for the Bolsheviks. The civil war flared up in every corner of Russia. In Ukraine, Petliura, Grigoriev, Denikin…

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Daniel Charney

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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Wilno, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Warszawa, France

Date:

Late 1930s

Subjects:

Communism, Politics, Writing

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Historical writing
Letter to Judah Leib Gordon
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Kovno, Thursday, 20 Heshvan 5629 [5 November 1868] His Honor, the Great Sage and Sweet Singer of Israel, Judah Leib Gordon, greetings! My dear esteemed gentleman! While I was still in Suwalki…

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Miriam Markel-Mosessohn

Places:

Kovno, Russian Empire (Kaunas, Lithuania)

Date:

1868

Subjects:

Writing, Language & linguistics, Translation, Women, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
The World Convention of YIVO (Yiddish Scientific Institute) upon the Tenth Anniversary of Its Founding
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Professor Fishl Shneerson (Warsaw): Out of great respect for YIVO I…

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YIVO

Places:

Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1936

Subjects:

Yiddish, Scholarship, Education, Communal organizations, Writing, Speeches

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Speeches
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, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Lists & catalogues