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Judaism and the Jews, or, On Jewish Apostasy
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“People generally say: the Torah before anything else. I, however, would say: Jews are holy, and they come first.” [Seder Eliyahu Rabba 14.2]This is the history of how Jewish thinking became enslaved…

Contributor:

Ya‘akov Ze’ev Latski-Bertholdi

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Apostasy, Exile, Theology, Assimilation, Sectarianism

Categories:

Theology, Science & philosophy
Excerpts from the Minute Book of a Psalms Society in the Russian Army
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This minute-book belongs to the members of the Psalms-Society formed here, at Aleksat, of the honorable Jews serving in the army of His Imperial Majesty Alexander, may His glory be exalted, at the…

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Judah Scheindling of Shkudy

Places:

Shkudy, Russian Empire (Skuodas, Lithuania)

Date:

1864–1867

Subjects:

War, Conscription, Communal organizations, Nationalism, Assimilation, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Reference works, Lists & catalogues
The Face of East European Jewry
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Is this the Jew of the East? Is he an old man, who, almost entirely removed from the present day and certainly removed from the future, lives a life that is limited to the most oppressed and narrowest…

Contributor:

Arnold Zweig

Places:

Kaunas, Russian Empire (Kaunas, Lithuania)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Assimilation, Race, Theology, Jewish identity, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy