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New York, 28 May, 1753Mr. Aaron LopezDear Sir:I have received your esteemed letter, in which you so kindly inform me that our Lord has given you a son. For this I extend the due felicitations to you…
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Aaron Lopez, Benjamin Gomez
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New York, British America and the British West Indies (New York, United States of America)
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1753–1767
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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
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1863
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Geskel Salomon
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Mid- to Late 19th Century
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The question of family names in general and of Jewish family names in particular is interesting in many ways. Unfortunately, Jewish scholarship has thus far devoted very little attention to this…
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Samuel Weissenberg
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Yelisavetgrad, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Kropyvnytskyy, Ukraine)
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1929
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Of all festivities celebrated among the Jews in southern Russia, the wedding ceremony has suffered the greatest loss of characteristic elements of folk tradition. Even among the poorest, weddings are…
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Samuel Weissenberg
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1905
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For four hours I sat engrossed while old Gershon Falk told his story, feeling all the while as though I were listening to a fantastic saga—as though I were in the presence of one from another time…
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S. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1925
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Before the war Bloyne was a rich and elegant Jewish town: wide streets, a large municipal park, several monuments, many tall buildings, large stores. But when the war came through, the town was…
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S. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1920
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What makes a book like this more than just a collection of excerpts, strung together interchangeably? What makes it a book? If I were to say it had been a matter of selection, who would venture to…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1959
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The written Hebrew agadah [lore and legends transmitted in rabbinic texts] is the primary literary form that was dominant for several centuries in the world of unbounded folk and individual creation…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik, Yehoshu‘a Ḥana Ravnitski
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1908