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6. “It is proper,” etc. The phraseology employed by the Tur is “And one should cover one’s head so that one should not be in a state of bareheadedness”—this is taken from the words of the Ba‘al ha-…
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Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
ca. 1803
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Professor Fishl Shneerson (Warsaw): Out of great respect for YIVO…
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YIVO
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Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1936
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women did not participate in the free professions regularly because at that time institutes of higher education had not yet opened their doors to them. The…
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Pinchas Kon
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Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1929
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Der pinkes (The Book of Records, or The Annals) appropriated the term for the old-fashioned record book of a Jewish community or institution to name a very new phenomenon: the first “annual for the…
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Shmuel Niger
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1913