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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

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Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
Editorial Statement of Der nayer gayst
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Many Jews in America owe their spiritual-intellectual development to the progressive Yiddish-language periodicals that are published here. But the existing progressive Yiddish-language periodicals are…

Contributor:

Alexander Harkavy

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Yiddish, Politics, Education, Writing

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Reportage
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
My Memoirs
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Jewish children grow up quickly. If only their bodies ripened as quickly as their hearts and minds! Were this an artist’s crayon in my hand instead of a pen, I would draw the following caricature of…

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Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Adolescence, Education, Language and linguistics, Jewish identity, Writing

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, (Auto)biography