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Letter on His Conversion
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A few days after receiving your precious letter of 5 November 1854, I began collating [the pages of my book], which took me until New Year’s eve to finish. But what a chasm in between! I began the…

Contributor:

Daniel Khvolson

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

ca. 1855

Subjects:

Conversion, Christianity, Circumcision, Parenthood

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
The Problems of Jewish Music
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June 1, 1918 Jewish music is the face of a frozen sphinx which, after the millennium of its antiquity, is still only on the path to discovering its secret, is only now waking to life…

Contributor:

Aleksander Krein

Places:

Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Music, Christian-Jewish relations, Christianity, Artists, Performing arts

Categories:

Political Culture, (Auto)biography