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The pride of the Germans was Kinderlyn. He was taller even than Leona Lakner, and he carried a very small head on a huge body. He was a real actor; he was said to be a member of the Dresden…
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Rodion Markovits
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1928
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An infinite weariness comes into the faces of the old tenements,
As they stand massed together on the block,
Tall and thoughtful silent,
In the enveloping twilight.
Pensively,
They eye each other…
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Alter Brody
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New York City, United States of America
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1918
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A Jewish Wedding
Deep in fields the klezmers can be heard
Driving horses foaming at the mouth,
Relatives, both poor and rich, arrive
To Reb Sane’s daughter’s wedding feast. [ . . . ]
But from a…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1924
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When my father made his last trip to the Antilles, Salomón, a cousin of his whom he had loved since childhood, had just lost his wife. At a very young age, they had come together to South America…
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Jorge Isaacs
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Bogotá, United States of Colombia
(Bogotá, Colombia)
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1867
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Open Letter to His Most Worthy,
Supreme Consistorial Counselor and
Provost Teller at Berlin, from some
Householders of the Jewish Religion
But when the more perfect comes, the
imperfect will pass…
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David Friedländer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1799
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1. Whenever the term idolaters appears, and it is not clearly referring…
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Domenico Gerosolomitano
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
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1596
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Do you know what was being discussed today on the radio talk show where everyone can call in and take part in the conversation? We, all of us, are crazy, a certain professor, a psychiatrist, said. So…
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Eva Deutsch, Brigitte Schwaiger
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Vienna, Austria
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1984
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This is the moment Francisco has been waiting for. Day after day and week after week he has imagined the court’s questions, turned them over in his mind, and minutely rehearsed his answers. Now fear…
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Marcos Aguinis
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Córdoba, Argentina
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1991
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What I like about Catholic Heaven (I’d say Christian Heaven, but I’m afraid of making a mistake; I know very little about Evangelicals and Seventh Day Adventists) is that it has well-defined limits…
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Alicia Steimberg
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1992
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At her meeting with the associate dean, Edith Margareten asked the administrator, a woman in her mid-40s, about the climate for Jews at Notre Dame. “Oh, it’s fine,” she said. “I’m Methodist myself.”
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Robin Hemley
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1996