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Editor’s Note in Sha‘are mizraḥ (Gates of the East)
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We gratefully acknowledge the signs of munificence shown to us by His Majesty’s government which has officially licensed our periodical, Sha‘are mizraḥ. We understand that this benevolence of His…

Contributor:

Rafael Uziel

Places:

Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Türkiye)

Date:

1846

Subjects:

Writing, Assimilation, Jewish languages, Scholarship, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Journalism
The Four Classes
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The Yiddish language is our mother tongue. But is it the language of education, by means of which we can best understand each other? Does anyone even make the suggestion that…

Contributor:

Shiye Mordkhe Lifshits

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1863

Subjects:

Scholarship, Assimilation, Jewish languages, Antisemitism, Yiddish, Journalism

Categories:

Historical writing, Journalism, Firsthand accounts
To Our Readers (of Magyar Zsidó Szemle)
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We are calling upon the Hungarian general public and especially our Jewish coreligionists to support a new undertaking. Our undertaking does not seek to compete with an existing one; rather, it…

Contributor:

Wilhelm Bacher, József Bánóczi

Places:

Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1884

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Scholarship, Jewish languages, Education, Community, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Journalism, Political Culture
A Great Announcement
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God be praised, it is now a year since we began printing our supplement to Ha-melits, the Kol mevaser, the world’s first newspaper in plain Yiddish. At first, many people ridiculed us, but time has…

Contributor:

Alexander Zederbaum

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1863

Subjects:

Scholarship, Assimilation, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Journalism

Categories:

Historical writing, Journalism, Firsthand accounts