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Jewish Women in the Midwifery School of Vilna University
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women did not participate in the free professions regularly because at that time institutes of higher education had not yet opened their doors to them. The…

Contributor:

Pinchas Kon

Places:

Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1929

Subjects:

Women, Birth, Scholarship, Education, Medicine

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Pedagogy & Schooling
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…

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YIVO

Places:

Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1936

Subjects:

Yiddish, Scholarship, Education, Communal organizations, Writing

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
The State of Yiddish Children’s Literature
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In the past there were no children among Jews, only “little Jews without beards,” so neither was there any children’s literature. Boys in the traditional heder used to read Ḥumesh [The Pentateuch]…

Contributor:

Shmuel Niger

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Children, Yiddish, Education, Writing

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & Philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling