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Brenner sinned. He went and published terrible heretical remarks, implying that the fundamental question is not the question of the Jewish religion, but the question of the place of productive work…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1911
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In the living quarters of the [North] African [Jews] in the transit camps, here’s what you’ll find: you’ll find filth, card games, and money, drunkenness, and whoring. Many of them are afflicted with…
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Aryeh Gelblum
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1949
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God be praised, it is now a year since we began printing our supplement to Ha-melits, the Kol mevaser, the world’s first newspaper in plain Yiddish. At first, many people ridiculed us, but time has…
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Alexander Zederbaum
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1863
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Safed is in the upper Galilee, in the Naftali region, with the bulk of the city atop the mountain. Surrounding the city’s mountain are some four mountains; on two of them, all the people are…
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Moses Basola
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Ancona, Papal States (Ancona, Italy)
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1521–1523
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I have examined the matter carefully, to see whether I should uphold that which they have already done, in nullifying the custom [of reciting the priestly blessing after dark, during the Ne…
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Jacob Ulma, Isaac Lampronti
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
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1715
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[…] Every year, out of 5.5 million Israeli Jewish citizens, about 50,000 travel to India as backpackers, most of them immediately after their military service. Backpacking is a very significant…
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Darya Maoz
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Albany, United States of America
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2005
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There is a need for a special Hebrew newspaper written for Galicia and the rest of the Central European countries—it seems to us that there is no need to emphasize this point. The two Hebrew-language…
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Simon Lazar
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1904
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A. Stories and sketches from life today and in the past; legends and poems.B. Articles about Jewish history and the Land of Israel, and the history of the achievements of…
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Simḥa Ben-Tsiyon
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1911
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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)
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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
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1886