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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
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1909
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Never have I been content with my narrow, dark, gloomy world, and always am I aware of the contrast between the great, beautiful world and my tiny, ugly world. And always I say, “The place is too…
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Yitsḥak Twersky
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Shpikov, Russian Empire (Shpykiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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Three liberating moments in Jewish history created our movement.
I don’t want to be a prophet, and to proclaim that we are now experiencing a new historical moment, that we are…
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Y. L. Peretz
Date:
1908
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To Mr. Sh. Dubnow, St. Petersburg
Moscow, Jan. 8, 1907
I received your letter, and thank you for everything you told me about. . . .
I have already heard about the classes you are giving on Genesis…
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Ahad Ha-Am
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1906–1907
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Literary-minded Jews have long been perplexed by a strange phenomenon. Our literature which is thousands of years old, comprises tens of thousands of volumes, and represents the many creative forces…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1913
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For twenty-two years I have been one of the parnasim [board members] and leaders of this magnificent congregation, the city of Lwów; my heart has moved me to do good work in memory of the generations…
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Solomon Buber
Places:
Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1894
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Dedication to My Dearly Beloved Grandfather, Reb Mendalle Mocher SephorimTo my dear grandfather, greetings!Stempenyu, my first long novel, which I inscribe to you, is yours; not only because I have…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1886