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During the weeks that Eleazar spent in pious contemplation in old Asia, the people of Barcelona took pains to persecute the Jews. It was they, once again, who made it hard for Spanish merchants to…
Contributor:
Else Lasker-Schüler
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
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1921
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De Vriendt shut the door, but stayed with his forehead pressed against it; the strength had gone out of him. This Englishman knew. He knew the nature of his relation to…
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Arnold Zweig
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1932
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About Grzhebin on canvas, about Grzhebin in the flesh.Since the letter is written in a penitent mood, the trademark of the Grzhebin Publishing House is affixed. Here too are several…
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Viktor Shklovsky
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1923
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[ . . . ] After the intractable insolence shown by Süss when his sentence was pronounced, he was fettered cross-wise in the Chamber of Nobles, where he was to be confined until execution, and kept…
Contributor:
Lion Feuchtwanger
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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In came the beginning of the month of December 1918.
Like the cheerless, cold drizzle, dirty frozen air hovers over the fields. Everywhere fragments of sky seem to be scattered over mounds of earth…
Contributor:
David Bergelson
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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He married Sonechka early, out of love. He loved her passionately only for the first two years. Then he lost interest but didn’t even notice it. He wasn’t thinking about love and women as a rule. He…
Contributor:
Semyon Yushkevich
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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Citizen Voli Brener
A Moscow snowy morning, sun-streaked and dry. When it falls on a Sunday, the morning shines with a thousand Moscow sparkles—rejuvenating white lights that charm and shimmer, as if…
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David Bergelson
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1928
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On the day of Walter Rathenau’s funeral in 1922, all mail and telephone service in Germany was suspended between 2:00 and 2:10 pm
“If he won’t honor our invoice, I’ll simply give him a buzz. Put the…
Contributor:
Kurt Tucholsky
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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A foreign crawling black stain, that’s what he was—the kosher butcher—in the new, not yet completed, but sparkling white Jewish settlement. Leading up to the High Holidays, he chastised impiety at…
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David Bergelson
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1928
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Martha Jadassohn had come with her parents from a small West Poznanian town, named either Bobst or Meseritz, to Berlin where her father’s only sister, a widow, was living alone…
Contributor:
Gertrud Kolmar
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1931