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Czernowitz Conference Speech Celebrating Yiddish
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Honored Conference: 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…

Contributor:

Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Scholarship, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Hasidism, Jewish languages

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
My Tiny, Ugly World
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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…

Contributor:

Yitsḥak Twersky

Places:

Shpikov, Russian Empire (Shpykiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Hasidism, Orthodox Judaism, Rabbis, Jewish identity

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Letters
Letter on Education
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With the grace of God, Friday, before the Shabbat of the reading of Noah, 5672 [1911]. To our fellow Hasidim (in the city of Turov), My stomach turned and my ears burned on hearing the terrible news…

Contributor:

Israel Perlow

Places:

Stolin, Russian Empire (Stolin, Belarus)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Hasidism, Education, Piety, Conservative Judaism, Jewish identity

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling
Algemeyne yidishe tsaytung Classified Ad for a Missing Suitcase
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My travel bag was lost somewhere between Szerencs and Nyíregyháza. It contained: a tallis, two pairs of tefillin, together with a Yeshuas Yisroel prayer book. There were also two High…

Contributor:

Lipót Burkos

Places:

Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Ritual object, Dress, Hasidism, Jewish identity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Advertisements, Firsthand Accounts