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Ahead of the first verses of the Eastern European Jewish poets, I would like to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, how much more Jargon [Yiddish] you understand than you believe you do.
I am not actually…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Prague, Czech Republic
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1912
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The Ḥaydakim [Bacteria] and Their Characteristics[ . . . ] There are grounds for thinking that, apart from the absence of alcoholism, there are also race factors among Jews that play a certain role…
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Mordechai Borochov
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Ottoman Palestine (Israel)
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1913
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I have observed that on account of our many sins these days, very many Jews have…
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Chofetz Chaim
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1897
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With the Grace of God, Sunday, [the week of parshat] Beshalaḥ 5658 [1898], Sighet
To my honorable friend, the famous sage, who is both rooted in the knowledge of [Torah from Mt.] Sinai and who uproots…
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Kedushas Yom Tov
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1898
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I set the Lord before me always. Karcag [Hungary], eve of the holy Sabbath, the week of [the reading of] Koraḥ, 5659 [June, 1899]. Abundant blessings and rejoicings to my dear friend, the eminent…
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Solomon Tsvi Schick (Rashban)
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Karcag, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Karcag, Hungary)
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1899
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May he be written and sealed immediately for good, long life—the honored rabbi, the splendid gentleman, the sharp and erudite, God-fearing, distinguished, may his name be honored, our teacher, R…
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Ḥayim Soloveitchik
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Brisk, Russian Empire (Brest, Belarus)
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1900
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‘Arukh ha-shulḥan, oraḥ ḥayim § 75:7And now come and let us shout out against the licentiousness of our generation, on account of our many sins. For it has now been many years that the daughters of…
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‘Arukh Ha-shulḥan (Yeḥiel Mikhl Epstein)
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Novogrudok, Russian Empire (Navahrudak, Belarus)
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1903
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Throughout the duration of the exile of Israel, Jews worshiped God in awe, and from the time that freedom was granted to them and the exile of the body was made easier, the exile of the soul increased…
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Shaul Brach
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1911
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With the grace of God, Friday, before the Shabbat of the reading of Noah, 5672 [1911].
To our fellow Hasidim (in the city of Turov),
My stomach turned and my ears burned on hearing the terrible news…
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Israel Perlow
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Stolin, Russian Empire (Stolin, Belarus)
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1911
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[ . . . ] But before we come to analyze the dreadful calamity [i.e., the drought] that has befallen us, and before we come to see what is the putrid humor harbored in our midst…
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Shimon Aghasi
Places:
Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1912