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Grandma Rekhl—my mother’s mother, whose name the members of the household and the people of the town all pronounced with exactness: Rekhl precisely with an “e,”…
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Ḥayim Tchemerinsky
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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Every single nation, if it wishes to place its foot on the threshold of the family of nations on the earth, must prepare a constitution for itself stating its integrity, and to bring with it the book…
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Yitsḥak Bernfeld
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Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1881
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In the early period of Jewish history there was a considerable party which took a materialistic view of the national life, in the sense that it had no ideal beyond that of making the State supreme at…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1904
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As socialists, we strive to overthrow the existing order, which is based on economic and political slavery, and to create on its ruins that collectivized state which alone can guarantee the full and…
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Unknown
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1904
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At night once, I awoke in the dark, crowded, loudly snoring railroad car; instantly I saw him on the seat across from me and instantly I recognized him. There he sat, the old, familiar night-Jew, who…
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David Bergelson
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1915
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It is clear that if there were no other proposal for saving tens of thousands of our brothers from their hard and bitter sufferings, if there were no other way in which our people could be reborn and…
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Yehalel (Yehudah Leib Levin)
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1881
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To Our Brethren and Sisters in the Exile, Peace Be with You!
“If I help not myself, who will help me?”
(Hillel)
Nearly two thousand years have elapsed since, in an evil hour, after an heroic…
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BILU
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1882
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From the top of a spire’s tower
A ringing’s heard—once. Again.
In the chasms of night and land of snow
A little village sunken low.
Overnight, human isles of rest
Warmed by the straw.
Close with…
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Dovid Hofshteyn
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Russian Empire (Ukraine, Ukraine)
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1912
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Some decades ago Jewish badkhonim-actors [jesters] were still a very common phenomenon. Most of the time the badkhn was not only an entertainer improvising rhymes and funny sayings, but also an actor…
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Dov Ber Slutsky
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Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1936
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Now, when the attention of broad circles of society has been drawn to issues of the Jewish land system, it is especially tempting to recall the distant past of the first Jewish agricultural…
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Saul Borovoi
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Odessa, USSR (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1928