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The World Convention of YIVO (Yiddish Scientific Institute) upon the Tenth Anniversary of Its Founding
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Professor Fishl Shneerson (Warsaw): Out of great respect for YIVO I…

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YIVO

Places:

Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1936

Subjects:

Yiddish, Scholarship, Education, Communal organizations, Writing, Speeches

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Speeches
Translator’s Note to Werner Sombart’s The Jews and Modern Capitalism
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Werner Sombart is undoubtedly one of the most striking personalities in the Germany of to-day. Born in 1863, he has devoted himself to research in economics, and has contributed much that is valuable…

Contributor:

Mortimer Epstein

Places:

London, United Kingdom (London, Great Britain)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Scholarship, Education, Writing, Capitalism, Politics

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Political Culture
Letter to A. Neubauer at Oxford University
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To his excellency, the great sage, the learned and famous rabbiAdolf H. Neubauer, the Head LibrarianOf the Government Library in Oxford, England! My dear Sir and Rabbi!Although I have not hitherto…

Contributor:

Abraham Dubzhevitch

Places:

Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1890

Subjects:

Education, Scholarship, Writing, Libraries, Bible, Letters

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Letters, Firsthand accounts
Degeneration
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To Professor Cesare Lombroso in Turin. Most esteemed and dear teacher! I dedicate this book to you, in order to express aloud that I would not have been able to write this…

Contributor:

Max Nordau

Places:

Kingdom of Italy (Italy, Italy)

Date:

1896

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Education, Scholarship, Writing, Christian-Jewish relations, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy