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Letter to Zalman Shneour: On Children’s Education
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Why should I write to you about myself? Nothing has happened in the meantime in my personal life. My son is still with me, as before. He is still an Extern. He knows the gymnasium [university…

Contributor:

Yehoshu‘a Ḥana Ravnitski

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Children, Jewish identity, Education, Family, Holidays

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Oyfn pripetshik (At the Hearth)
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There’s a fire in the hearth Warm and cozy as it gets The rebbe teaches children The Hebrew alphabet

Contributor:

Mark Varshavsky

Places:

Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1900

Subjects:

Education, Children, Torah study, Jewish identity, Exile

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry
Temerl
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Cover image and page 4 of Moyshe Broderzon’s Temerl, illustrated by Joseph Chaikov. 

Contributor:

Joseph (Iosif) Chaikov, Moyshe Broderzon

Places:

Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Children, Yiddish, Education, Jewish identity

Categories:

Children & young adult literature, Print & book culture
Page of Yiddish text with illustration of stylized bust of figure wearing necklace and crown next to a bird.
Specific Hebrew Pedagogical Problems
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The Jewish kindergarten not only needs to be, but also can be in Hebrew. But at the same time, we must recognize that in the countries of exile, this matter entails arduous labor. If we saw the…

Contributor:

Yeḥiel Heilprin

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Education, Children, Family, Jewish identity

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling