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Letter to Tuvie Feder
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“You are angry about the language into which my book has been translated? You sound like chirping birds and clattering animals and wild beasts in the forest! Kindly recall, my dear friend! What…

Contributor:

Jacob Samuel Bick

Places:

Brody, Austrian Empire (Brody, Ukraine)

Date:

1815

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Enlightenment

Categories:

Language & Linguistics, Firsthand accounts, Letters
Kitsur shene luḥot ha-berit (Abridged Two Tablets of the Covenant)
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There are a few Torah scholars who are rich in knowledge and whose mental grasp is abundant, while others do not possess an intellectual grasp akin to theirs, for everyone possesses mental grasp in…

Contributor:

Yeḥiel Mikhel Epstein

Places:

Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)

Date:

1683–1693

Subjects:

Talmud, Scholarship, Language and linguistics, Education, Yiddish

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Ethics