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Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…
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Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1907
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We have been implored to print the following letter:Dear Mrs. Bernadzikowska-Belović,I am an eager reader of the Bosnische Post and, especially, of your short feature pieces and articles, which are my…
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Laura Papo
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Sarajevo, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Date:
1916
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The speaker brings examples and proofs from other nations, like Switzerland, Belgium, and even different states in Germany, where the spoken language is radically different from the official state…
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Noah Pines
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1917
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[ . . . ] However, the new Ha-Shiloaḥ will also be different from its predecessor in many important respects. Without a doubt, Hebrew literature has evolved and accomplished much over the past fifteen…
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Joseph Klausner
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1903
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We are tired of being hungry! There is hardly a Hebrew word [to be found]. There is neither vision nor examination, no memory of the ancients, no expressions for the present generation…
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Naḥum Sokolow
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Cologne, Germany
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1907
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Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…
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Avram Naon
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1909
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Our literature is like our people: most of it is planted in lands of the exile, and just a few seedlings, which have not yet developed, whose quality cannot be discussed, have begun to flourish in our…
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Unknown
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1911
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Ahead of the first verses of the Eastern European Jewish poets, I would like to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, how much more Jargon [Yiddish] you understand than you believe you do.
I am not actually…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Prague, Czech Republic
Date:
1912
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To the editor of La Bos del Pueblo:
I am a Jewish girl born in Russia who came to America eight years ago. Although I am not remarkably well-educated, I have always wanted to marry a well-educated boy…
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Clara
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1916
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We are becoming so accustomed to the remarkable enterprise of the authorities of the Temple, East End Jewry’s playhouse in Commercial Road, that we cease to wonder at anything they now attempt in…
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London, United Kingdom
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1912