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The World Convention of YIVO (Yiddish Scientific Institute) upon the Tenth Anniversary of Its Founding
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Professor Fishl Shneerson (Warsaw): Out of great respect for YIVO I…

Contributor:

YIVO

Places:

Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1936

Subjects:

Yiddish, Scholarship, Education, Communal organizations, Writing, Speeches

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Speeches
The State of Yiddish Children’s Literature
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In the past there were no children among Jews, only “little Jews without beards,” so neither was there any children’s literature. Boys in the traditional heder used to read Ḥumesh [The Pentateuch]…

Contributor:

Shmuel Niger

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Children, Yiddish, Education, Writing, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling
A New Letter-Writing Guide
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A new letter-writing guide containing many examples of various kinds of important letters written with great diligence, great sensitivity, and in the best style; these letters also include very nice…

Contributor:

Hirsh Leon D’or

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1893

Subjects:

Yiddish, Writing, Language & linguistics, Jewish languages, Language & Linguistics, Education

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Language & Linguistics
To the Readers of Literarishe monatsshriften
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Literature cannot survive, cannot develop freely and expansively, if it depends on an underdeveloped reader, if it satisfies the spiritual-aesthetic needs only of those who have no access to the…

Contributor:

Shmuel Niger, A. Vayter, Shmarye Gorelik

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Philosophy, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Exile, Writing, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy
All of the Books That Have Arrived at the Editor’s Desk
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    Future [Tsukunft], first compilation. Published by Tsukunft, St. Petersburg (1913). Ben-Ami, Big Fayvl and Little Fayvl (a short story). Published by Far undzere kinder…

Contributor:

Boris Kletzkin

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Writing, Yiddish, Jewish languages, Poetry, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Lists & catalogues