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What Language Did the Jews in Poland Speak?
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Motivated by the book by Mrs. R. Centnerszwerowa: There is a heated struggle going on about public schooling in the [Polish] Kingdom [of the Russian Empire]. Various speakers at a range of meetings…

Contributor:

Majer Bałaban

Places:

Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)

Date:

1898

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Jewish languages, Language and linguistics, Education, Assimilation

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & Philosophy
Letters to Sholem Aleichem
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June 17, 1888 [June 29 in the Gregorian calendar]Dear Sir:Several days ago, I received an undated and terse postcard from one of my friends, a person close to me, H. Epstein, in which the following…

Contributor:

Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Zamość, Russian Empire (Zamość, Poland)

Date:

1888

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Education

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Geviksn
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Cover page of G. Bocz’s Yiddish-language biology textbook, Geviksn: Baarbet Avrom Golomb (Plants: Reworked by Avrom Golomb).

Contributor:

Avrom Golomb

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1919

Subjects:

Education, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Jewish languages, Children

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Print & Book Culture, Visual & Material Culture
Page of Yiddish text with illustration of leaves in the center.