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Every day they took from us whatever their hearts desired. They said to us, “We are needed to protect you from the mob.” We had no choice but to believe them. We had to take being cheated. They…
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Elhanan Helen
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1616
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The history of the Jews in the last century and a half has turned about one central fact: that of Emancipation. But what has Emancipation really meant to the Jew? The generally accepted view has it…
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Salo W. Baron
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1928
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The two hundred and fifty letters presented here require no preliminaries or commentary. No human language is adequate to the task. Even the account of our people’s history, drenched as…
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Berakha Ḥabas
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1943
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September 7, 1912. The French enter Marrakesh. Marching through the Djema el Fna Square, surrounded by his general staff, Colonel Mangin is surprised to hear, amid the discordant noises of the crowd…
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José Bénech
Places:
Marrakesh, French Protectorate in Morocco (Morocco)
Date:
1940
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The Jews of Tunis have not been confined to the hara for a long time now. Since the end of the last century, those acquiring a degree of ease have abandoned it and…
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Paul Sebag
Places:
Tunis, Tunisia
Date:
1959
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2. What was it that made for the peculiar position of the Jews in the Middle Ages and later, until emancipation came along? It was the ghetto, we are told and told again, which was at the root of…
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Max Weinreich
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1967
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“The living faith has vanished. . . . All that remains is poetry!” A superficial observer of life in the ghetto might come to more or less the same conclusion about the way…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
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Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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. . . I head up the public-health service in the program to combat epidemics and also the hospital department. Besides, I also direct the medical board here in the ghetto, where over 800 doctors are…
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Israel Milejkowski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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The Book of the Ghetto Wars is intended to bring together a selection of the materials in our possession—testimony, journals and notes, documents, studies, poems, and stories—that were created during…
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Antek Zuckerman, Moshe Basok
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1954
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The German occupation with its huge system of ghettos, concentration camps, death camps, and more cannot be represented in a normal human tongue. No depictions, documents, and images can…
Contributor:
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1947