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Brivenshteler: A Letter to a Friend in Russia about America
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Dear Friend,You asked me in your last letter to write about America, what kind of country it is and what life is like here. I had to smile as I read your words. [ . . . ]In order to describe America…

Contributor:

Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)

Places:

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

Date:

1895–1905

Subjects:

Migration, Writing, Cities, Diaspora, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
The Affirmation of the Diaspora
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We all recognize the tragic aspects of the Diaspora and we cannot hope to achieve in the Diaspora as full and complete national-cultural development as is possible for a nation living in its own…

Contributor:

Simon Dubnow

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Diaspora, Zionism, Nationalism, Yiddish, Polemics, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters