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Texts & Translation

גרויסער רוף פֿון דער שעה

The Great Call of the Hour (Part 1)

The fol­low­ing essay by Zeitlin is part one of his orig­i­nal call for the for­ma­tion of an elite Jew­ish spir­i­tu­al fra­ter­ni­ty, pub­lished in Der moment in 1923.

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