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We take Jewish secular culture here in its modern shape, its language form, Yiddish. It is not the first expression of worldly or secular Jewish culture. In ancient times almost the entire cultural…
Contributor:
Chaim Zhitlowsky
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1927
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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective Movement…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, N. Minkov
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1919
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Literature cannot survive, cannot develop freely and expansively, if it depends on an underdeveloped reader, if it satisfies the spiritual-aesthetic needs only of those who have no access to the…
Contributor:
Shmuel Niger, A. Vayter, Shmarye Gorelik
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1908
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Dos naye lebn (New Life) was a Yiddish literary and political monthly founded and edited by Haim Zhitlovsky and published in New York. Among the topics debated in its pages was the question of whether…
Contributor:
Chaim Zhitlowsky
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1909
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Warsaw, October 17, 1932
Dear friend S. Niger,
When we speak about left and right, we should, first of all, enclose both words in thick quotation marks, and then we have to remember that true left…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1932