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Berlin-Grunewald Tauberstr. 16 February 26, 1970 Dear Mr. Scholem, Writing this letter does not come easily to me; hence the long delay. And now you know already that I have not been able to decide in…

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Peter Szondi

Places:

Berlin, West Germany (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1970

Subjects:

Scholarship, Aliyah, Holocaust, Antisemitism, Letters, Education

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Firsthand accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling

Letter to His Mother

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May the Lord who dwells in Zion protect you from any grief and sorrow. To my beloved mother, the crown of my head, the pious Mrs. Rachel, may she live long. [ . . . ] You should know, my dear mom…

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Moses Sussman Zarit

Places:

Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)

Date:

ca. 1560

Subjects:

Family, Children, Parenthood, Plague, Education, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Letters

Letter to the Working Committee of the Hebrew University

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Jabotinsky, Vladimir Yevgenyevich To the [Hebrew] University working committee in St. Petersburg July 7, 1914Dear Sirs,1. J. C. T. transferred 500 Rubles to me on your behalf, the receipt of which I…

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Vladimir Jabotinsky

Places:

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

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Education, Zionism, Politics, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Letters, Political Culture

Letters to Sholem Aleichem

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June 17, 1888 [June 29 in the Gregorian calendar]Dear Sir:Several days ago, I received an undated and terse postcard from one of my friends, a person close to me, H. Epstein, in which the following…

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Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Zamość, Russian Empire (Zamość, Poland)

Date:

1888

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Education, Letters, Politics

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Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, 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…

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Israel Perlow

Places:

Stolin, Russian Empire (Stolin, Belarus)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Hasidism, Education, Piety, Jewish movements, Jewish identity, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling

The Marriage of Regina

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The whole city was talking about Regina’s wedding. I should tell you first that Regina is one of our former students. People were saying, “Yes, Regina is à la franca” (the expression means “European…

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Djamilé Douec

Places:

Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Marriage, Community, Class, Education, Women, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling

Letters to the Central Committee of the Alliance Israélite Universelle from Tangier, Morocco; Sousse, Tunisia; and Tunis, Tunisia

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Tunis, November 1920Zionism still continues to make progress in Tunisia. In all the major cities of the Regency, Zionist committees have already been established. In Tunis itself there are three…

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Alliance Israélite Universelle

Places:

Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)

Tangier, French Protectorate in Morocco (Tangier, Morocco)

Date:

1920–1938

Subjects:

Zionism, Mizrahi, Sephardic, Education, Antisemitism, Journalism, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Reportage

Letters to Conrad Habicht

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Bern, Thursday [18 or 25 May 1905]Dear Habicht,Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential…

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Albert Einstein

Places:

Bern, Switzerland

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Math, Scholarship, Education, Letters

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Letters, Science & philosophy

Letters to Shimon Dubnow

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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

Subjects:

Zionism, Scholarship, Jewish identity, Education, Christian-Jewish relations, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters

Note on the Emancipation of the Jews of Russia

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For the purposes of preparing for this emancipation, four measures are proposed: 1) the establishment of a Jewish newspaper in Russian; 2) the establishment of a scholarly literary journal in Yiddish…

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Emmanuil Borisovich Levin

Places:

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1859

Subjects:

Emancipation, Politics, Antisemitism, Education, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Letters, Political Culture

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