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Part One, in which are shown all the rules necessary for understanding language, how to compose and write therein prose and verse, with the appropriate elegance and measure.
To the Reader:
Although I…
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Moses Gideon Abudiente
Places:
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1633
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I must now say something of the condition of the Jewish schools in general. The school is commonly a small smoky hut, and the children are scattered, some on benches, some on the bare earth. The…
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Solomon Maimon
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1792–1793
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“If God grant that the earth will be full of understanding, and everyone will speak the same language, Ashkenazic, then only (the form) Brisk will be written.” That is how Meir ben Moses Hacohen, the…
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Solomon Birnbaum
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Hamburg, Weimar Republic (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1925
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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
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1842
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An apology for the fact that this is written in the language of Ashkenaz (in Hochdeutch [German]). In my opinion, there are two good reasons for this: first, I have found written in…
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Lów Wallach
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1716
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We are tired of being hungry! There is hardly a Hebrew word [to be found]. There is neither vision nor examination, no memory of the ancients, no expressions for the present generation…
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Naḥum Sokolow
Places:
Cologne, Germany
Date:
1907