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But a few years ago, before the outbreak of the world-wide European upheaval [World War I], no one even entertained the possibility that a center for the revelation and development of the Jewish…
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Shmaryahu Levin
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United States, United States of America
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1916–1917
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Gentlemen of the jury, we have been in public life for twenty-seven years. We have been hauled into court, in and out of season—we have never denied our position. Even the police know that Emma…
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Emma Goldman
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1917
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Recently a friend of mine, who is a member of the Workmen’s Circle Chorus, visited, bringing with her the…
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J. Levitt
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1918
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The yearning to modernize the yeshiva and give it the appearance of a seminary grew considerably in the hearts of our scholars; but, regretfully, they used whatever filth…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1888
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The secretary rises and begins to read out the indictment:“It has been nearly twenty years since Yiddish began to show signs of becoming a language, to stretch its limbs and demonstrate some forward…
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Sholem Aleichem
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1888
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In Jewish tradition, the command to “bind them [God’s words] as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead” is understood as requiring passages from the Torah to be written on…
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Qumran, Land of Israel (Khirbat Qumrān, Israel)
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Second Temple Period
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I hear it said: On the contrary, inasmuch as the things most essential for the life of a people have been forcibly taken from our people’s soul, and we stand miraculously in midair like the mem and…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1897
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The goal of the natural method of language acquisition is not simply to teach people how to speak in as little time possible; its goal is to inculcate the language to the learner in an easy and…
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Yitsḥak Epstein
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Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1898
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It is you, modern girls, whom I address. The modern spirit has completely changed your natures. If the sages of old, who spoke so much about the wonderful strength of woman as opposed to man, found…
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Reina ha-Kohen
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1898
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[ . . . ] Similarly, the Russian Jews use the traditional rhyming couplet in those verses that chronicle a historical event or inculcate an ethical truth. The real folksongs, however, are set to music…
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Leo Wiener
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1898