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To all Commissioners of Immigration and Immigrant Inspectors in charge: It is hereby directed that, with a view to promptly obtaining definite information with regard to alien Anarchists and criminals…
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Oscar Straus
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Washington D.C., United States of America (Washington, United States of America)
Date:
1908
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We are embarking on the publication of a new journal devoted to the affairs of the workers and masses of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel and the Ottoman Empire. We wish to create a journal…
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Editorial Board of Ha-Aḥdut
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1910
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What are the demands of the organized proletariat on this day [May 1]?
Above all the eight-hour workday. With eight-hour days we would gain work for thousands of unemployed men; we would gain time to…
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Abraham Benaroya
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1911
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The purpose of Agudat Israel is the solution of the respective tasks facing the Jewish collectivity, in the spirit of the Torah. In accordance with this purpose, it sets itself the following goals: (1…
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Agudas Yisroel
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Katovitze, Germany (Katowice, Poland)
Date:
1912
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My precious heart, my handsome soldier son,
I write this letter with my blood to you.
Since you’ve had to take the Kaiser’s shilling
our world has turned red of a fiery hue.
The big decisive battle…
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Zseni Várnai
Places:
Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1912
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
The word “feminism” is interpreted in different ways. Some would grant [women] exaggerated rights. Others limit their demands to their simplest form without arriving at a proper…
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Graziella Benghiat
Places:
İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1913
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Mrs. Frederick Nathan returned to New York last week after a summer spent in the various capitals of Europe, where she attended numerous congresses and met the leaders of the European feminist…
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Maud Nathan
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1913
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The echo that Marx’s writing arouses in Jews’ hearts provides clearer evidence [of Marx’s influence on Judaism].As everybody knows, a Jewish proletariat did not exist during Marx’s lifetime, certainly…
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Zalman Shazar
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Weimar Republic
Date:
1918
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For many years we have awaited your arrival on our soil. We waited, as we believed that your arrival fulfills our eminent, longing of millennia. To our great pleasure, the joyous day has arrived…
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Ben-Zion Hai Uziel
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1919
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June 17, 1888 [June 29 in the Gregorian calendar]Dear Sir:Several days ago, I received an undated and terse postcard from one of my friends, a person close to me, H. Epstein, in which the following…
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Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Zamość, Russian Empire (Zamość, Poland)
Date:
1888