The letters of Tuvye Kretzmar

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    • Letters: 1899
    • Letters: 1900
    • Letters: 1901
    • Letters: 1902
    • Letters: 1903
    • Letters after 1903
    • Appendix 1: Zionist speeches
    • Appendix 2: Poems
    • Appendix 3: Family tree
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    Letters: 1902

    Letters: 1899

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    Letters: 1900

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    Letters: 1901

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    Letters: 1902

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    Letters: 1903

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    Letters after 1903

    Malmesbury, 14 January, 1902

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    Malmesbury, 28 January, 1902

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    Malmesbury, 12 February, 1902

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    Cape Town, 20 February, 1902

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    Malmesbury, 4 March, 1902

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    Malmesbury, 11 March, 1902

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    Malmesbury, 16 March, 1902

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    Malmesbury, 29 March, 1902

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    Malmesbury, Rosh Chodesh Iyar, 7 May, 1902

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    Malmesbury, 11 May, 1902

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    Malmesbury, 14 June, 1902

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    Out of context, no date, no place

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    Cape Town, 30 July, 1902

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    Malmesbury, 5 August, 1902

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    Malmesbury, August, 1902

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    Malmesbury, Yom Alef Shiftem (about one month before Rosh Hashanah), 29 August , 1902

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    Malmesbury, 8 September, 1902

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    Malmesbury, a few weeks before Rosh Hashanah, September 1902

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    Malmesbury, 8 September, 1902

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    Malmesbury, 26 October, 1902

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    Cape Town, November 23, 1902

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    Malmesbury, 15 December, 1902

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    Letters courtesy of Phil Kretzmar