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Дата написания1970-01-01
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24

See later, p. 108 et seq.

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25

The ha-Shiloah was edited from 1896 to 1902 by Ahad Ha'am in Odessa, though it was published in Berlin. Beginning with 1903, it was edited by Dr. Joseph Klausner, also in Odessa.

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26

['Abdut be-tok Herut, the title of one of these articles.]

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27

[Tehiyyat ha-Ru'ah, the title of another article, based upon his report at the Zionist Convention at Minsk. See above, p. 51.]

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The first three volumes appeared in 1895-1904. [The fourth volume appeared in 1913. A German rendering of Ahad Ha'am's selected essays by the translator of the present volume was published in Berlin in 1904; a second enlarged edition appeared in 1913. An English translation by Leon Simon was issued by the Jewish Publication Society of America in 1912.]

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[He died, after the completion of the present volume by the author, on December 15, 1917.]

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30

[The Yiddish equivalent for "Grandfather."]

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31

A collection of his sketches, translated into English by Helena Frank, was issued by the Jewish Publication Society of America in 1906.

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32

Died in New York on May 13, 1916.

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33

See vol II, p. 228 et seq.

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34

See vol. II, p. 330, n. 1.

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35

"If thou wish to know the fountain – whence thy martyred brethren drew their inspiration."

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36

See vol. II, p. 381.

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37

The following extract may show that the great writer had a profound insight into the causes of the Kishinev barbarities:

"My opinion concerning the Kishinev crime is the result also of my religious convictions. Upon the receipt of the first news which was published in the papers, not yet knowing all the appalling details which were communicated subsequently, I fully realized the horror of what had taken place, and experienced simultaneously a burning feeling of pity for the innocent victims of the cruelty of the populace, amazement at the bestiality of all these so-called Christians, revulsion at all these so-called cultured people who instigated the mob and sympathized with its actions. But I felt a particular horror for the principal culprit, our Government with its clergy which fosters in the people bestial sentiments and fanaticism, with its horde of murderous officials. The crime committed at Kishinev is nothing but a direct consequence of that propaganda of falsehood and violence which is conducted by the Russian Government with such energy. The attitude adopted by the Russian Government in relation to this question may only serve as a new proof of the class egotism of this Government, which stops at no cruelty whenever it finds it necessary to check movements that are deemed dangerous by it. Like the Turkish Government at the time of the Armenian massacres, it remains entirely indifferent to the most horrible acts of cruelty, as long as these acts do not affect its interests."

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Schlaff is unser Hand zu streiten, stark un schwer is unser Schmerz, Kum-zhe du mit Treist un Liebe, gutes heisses jüdisch Herz! Brüder, Schwester, hot rachmones: groiss un schrecklich is di Noit, Giebt di Toite oif Tachrichim, giebt di Lebedige Broit!

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Massa Nemirov. This heading was chosen to appease the censor. As the name Kishinev could not be mentioned, Nemirov was chosen, being the name of the town which yielded the largest number of victims during the Cossack massacres of 1648. [See vol. I, p. 146, et seq.– In a later edition the poem was renamed Be-'Ir ha-Haregah, "In the city of Slaughter."]

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40

One of the instigators, Pisarevski, a notary public, had blown out his brains before the beginning of the trial. Other instigators from among the Kishinev intelligenzia appeared merely as witnesses.

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41

The speech of Karabchevski justifying his withdrawal was particularly powerful. He openly declared that the pogrom was only "the fulfilment of a criminal order given from above." "The whole of Kishinev," he said, "was converted during the excesses into an immense circus of antiquity, where, before the eyes of curious spectators from among the administration and the army, before a festively attired crowd, a terrible drama was enacted in the depth of the arena. From the one side defenceless victims were driven upon the arena, and from the other maddened beasts were set at them, until the signal to stop was given, and the frightful spectacle was ended at once."

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42

About two months before the war, the Russian viceroy of the Far East had prohibited the Jews from residing in Port Arthur and upon the Kuantung Peninsula, whence the Russians were expelled by the Japanese a year later.

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43

Out of the thirty physicians who were mobilized in Kiev twenty-six were Jews. In Odessa, the Jews furnished twenty-one physicians out of thirty.

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