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If in what follows the nature of language is considered on the basis of the first chapter of Genesis, the object is neither biblical interpretation nor subjection of the Bible to objective…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1916
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The evening of 5 Heshvan, 5642 [October 28, 1881]
Tomorrow with the second post, a pamphlet will be sent to you with a responsum entitled Isaac’s Stream (Naḥal Yitsḥak), regarding a miserable agunah…
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Isaac Elḥanan Spektor
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Kovno, Russian Empire (Kaunas, Lithuania)
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1881
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I will speak with my heart while my soul is faint, when the spirit of my understanding wanders through the recesses of my worries. My thoughts surely ask me: What is this? And why is this? What is…
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Unknown
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1882
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Fourteen years ago I wrote, as now, an article in Ha-Shaḥar [The Dawn] that I called by this same title. At that time, too, I called out in heartfelt joy: “At dusk, let there be light!” For then, too…
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Peretz Smolenskin
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1883
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In one of the recent issues of Ha-Melits, which for unknown reasons I only received today, I read about Mr. W. Shor’s complaint about the Serbian Jews’ refusal to accept Jews, persecuted in other…
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Simon Bernfeld
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Belgrade, Serbia
Date:
1886
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From Rose Kaplan, Nurse in Charge of District Visiting Nursing in Jerusalem, for the Hadassah Chapter, Daughters of Zion.
Miss Landy and I, nurses for the Daughters of Zion of America, send…
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Rose Kaplan
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem)
Date:
1914
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Dear Sir, [ . . . ]
We can talk about a Jewish racial or religious sentiment, but this is in perfect harmony with the Jews’ Hungarian national sentiment, which is not a patriotic slogan but a very…
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József Patai
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1914
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Chicago, Ill., 12/7/15 My dear Girl:The enclosed money order for $40.00 represents the forty dollars collected at my Birth Control Lecture for you. I am sure it will come very handy, as you must be…
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Emma Goldman
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1915
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The problem concerning the establishment of a Higher School for Jewish studies, which was recently raised by the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia (OPE), should be…
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Ben-Zion Dinur
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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Beloved brothers!
It is a sublime and meaningful name we have taken for ourselves! We carry the name of choice individuals from our people—people who have, in practice, actually presented themselves…
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David Horowitz
Date:
1917