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  • To-day as never before our _intelligenzia_ as defined by university training and education is identifying itself more and more with Jewish life and aspiration in our country.

    The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

  • It made the _intelligenzia_ of Russia feel that it was their duty to teach the workingman to demand the earth.

    The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

  • Jewish opportunity of the present generation; in this will they reverse, such is my hope and my belief, that condition and that attitude of the Jewish _intelligenzia_ in the past (and still largely in the present) which evoked the statement of Abraham Geiger.

    The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

  • SOME seventy years ago the celebrated Jewish scholar, Abraham Geiger, charged the Jewish _intelligenzia_ of his day with indifference towards Judaism and Jewish interests.

    The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

  • Innocent Smith, for example, is a statement made by a Trans-Siberian station-master, which is a perfectly exquisite burlesque at the expense of the Russian _intelligenzia_.

    G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Julius West 1904

  • Both had acquired the habit, however unjustly, of regarding their local intelligenzia (with the exception of the few who kept themselves wholly apart from all groups) as worshipers of small gods, and preferred to take their cues from London or New York.

    The Sisters-In-Law Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • But the writers: potential or locally arrived novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, were the real intelligenzia!

    The Sisters-In-Law Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • The local intelligenzia, those that assured one another how great were each and all, and whose poems or stories found an occasional hospitality in the eastern magazines, who toiled over "precious" paragraphs of criticism or whose single achievement had been a play for the mid-summer jinks of the

    The Sisters-In-Law Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • The better elements among the _intelligenzia_, however, looked with consternation upon this growing indifference to everything Jewish among the college-bred Jewish youth.

    History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900

  • At any rate, the league between the new Jewish _intelligenzia_ and the

    History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900

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