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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…
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Y. L. Peretz
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1908
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The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language has been assembled on the basis of inclusiveness—that is to say, as a dictionary which attempts to record and include all the words of the Yiddish language…
Contributor:
Yudl Mark, Judah A. Joffe
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1961
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We take Jewish secular culture here in its modern shape, its language form, Yiddish. It is not the first expression of worldly or secular Jewish culture. In ancient times almost the entire cultural…
Contributor:
Chaim Zhitlowsky
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1927
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The Yiddish language is our mother tongue. But is it the language of education, by means of which we can best understand each other? Does anyone even make the suggestion that…
Contributor:
Shiye Mordkhe Lifshits
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863
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God be praised, it is now a year since we began printing our supplement to Ha-melits, the Kol mevaser, the world’s first newspaper in plain Yiddish. At first, many people ridiculed us, but time has…
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Alexander Zederbaum
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863