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The goal of the natural method of language acquisition is not simply to teach people how to speak in as little time possible; its goal is to inculcate the language to the learner in an easy and…
Arnold Böcklin is dead—yet who among you knew that he lived? If I were to tell you that he was the man who knew how, with paintbrush dipped in colors upon a piece of canvas, to shake every heart…
These are modern reconstructions of the Ark of the Covenant. Chests with images on top and with carrying poles are known from ancient Egypt. The depictions of the cherubs here are based on winged…
I have always regretted one thing. When I ponder the Hebrew literature of all periods I ask myself: Why is it that our forefathers, who spent so much time on the study of matters of religion and law…
The French Revolution wherever it penetrates, and in France above all, opens to Judaism a new era, in a double sense, material and moral.
On one hand, by breaking down the barrier between the Jew and…
We are speaking of the Jewish Renaissance. By this we understand the peculiar and basically inexplicable phenomenon of the progressive rejuvenation of the Jewish people in language, customs, and art…
The idea of publishing a complete History of the Jews in Russia scarcely calls for extensive explanations or justifications. Russian Jewry, which quantitatively represents the most significant…
Society of “Hebrew Language Lovers” [Ḥoveve sefat ‘ever]Moscow BranchMaruseyka, 10 Kosmodimian AlleyTelephone: 180-53Moscow, 24 Adar 5677 [March 18, 1917]To Mr. Ḥ.N. Bialik in Odessa,Honored Friend!Th…
What is Judaism if not an ethical monotheism? The answer is that it is not an “ism” at all, despite the last syllable in its name. It is a living soul or consciousness; it is the soul or consciousness…
Based on a painting, now lost, by Maurits Leon, this lithograph by Johannes Heinrich Rennefeld (1832–1877) seems to depict a scene from an 1837 novel about Spinoza by German Jewish author Berthold…
