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502. Since our eyes have seen the great neglect of Torah among schoolchildren, caused by [not] printing of folios of the Gemara [with Rashi’s commentary], because the…
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The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuania)
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1655, 1667, 1679
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Pave the way! Pave the way!More than twenty years have passed since the idea that we now call Zionism began to reawaken among the Jews, though its essence and intensity had never ceased among the…
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Ze’ev Yavetz
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1902
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Bearing in mind:
that the course of capitalist development in those states in which Jews reside is not creating for them the kind of economic conditions that could lead to the…
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The Bund
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1905
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Women have always played a noticeable role in the Bund movement. Even at the dawn of the Jewish labor movement they were distinguished by their number and activity. The mass movement in Vilna began…
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Anna Rozental
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Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1937
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Birds are drowsing on the branches.
Sleep, my darling child.
At your cradle, in the field,
A stranger sits and sings.
Once you had another cradle
Woven out of joy.
And your mother, oh your mother
W…
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Leah Rudnitsky
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Wilno, Republic of Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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ca. 1942
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The cartwheels rush,
quivering.
What is their burden?
Shoes, shivering.
The cart is like
a great hall:
the shoes crushed together
as though at a ball.
A wedding? A party?
Have I gone blind?
Who…
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Abraham Sutzkever
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Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1943
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In short, in addition to being affluent, our Reb Hoshea Heffler was also steeped in the holy books. He was a traditional Jew, who could not abide the maskilim, the enlightened ones. He always used to…
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Isaac Meyer Dik
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1865
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He said: “Show me, I pray You, Your glory!”
Behold, wise men have declared,
Moreover, the proofs adduced by them have attested,
That the senses are illusory,
Mirages are legion,
Thoughts are…
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Abraham Dov (Adam) ha-Kohen Lebensohn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1842
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In honor of Jacob’s daughter who was raped by Ben ḤamorWhy should you weep my sister Ruḥamah,Why are you downcast, why does your spirit quiver,And why have your rosy cheeks wilted?Because raiders…
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Judah Leib Gordon
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Russian Empire (Lithuania, Lithuania)
Date:
1881
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Shmuel Niger
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913