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Literary-minded Jews have long been perplexed by a strange phenomenon. Our literature which is thousands of years old, comprises tens of thousands of volumes, and represents the many creative forces…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1913
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Future [Tsukunft], first compilation. Published by Tsukunft, St. Petersburg (1913).
Ben-Ami, Big Fayvl and Little Fayvl (a short story). Published by Far undzere kinder…
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Boris Kletzkin
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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The problem of creating a body of translated literature in Yiddish is very important and must be solved systematically. This serves the interests of our original [Yiddish] literature best.
[I will…
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Moyshe Litvakov
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918–1919
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We live in a time of Sturm und Drang [storm and stress]. Every day brings new disappointments and new hopes. Old forms lose their value, no new ones are being created. And the synthetic gaze of…
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David Bergelson
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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Dear Friend,You asked me in your last letter to write about America, what kind of country it is and what life is like here. I had to smile as I read your words. [ . . . ]In order to describe America…
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Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1895–1905
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Hatred can never be good. (Spinoza, Ethics)
The spirit of politics has perhaps never before embraced people as tightly as today. There is an increase in social awareness. The class division of society…
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1932
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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…
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Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1932
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Mordkhe Spektor [1858–1925] was the “honorary chair” of the “Society of Gluttons and Drunkards.” Though he had not been elected to this “post,” everyone felt that Spektor was the singular candidate…
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Elkhonen Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1937
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The situation of Jews in the Soviet Union may well be the greatest of all the great wonders of the world. The history of Jews in tsarist Russia has been centuries of darkness…
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David Pinski
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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An abecedary is a list of the letters of the alphabet, written in order, for instruction or practice in writing, and perhaps also for other purposes. Four abecedaries were written on this large…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE