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Mordecai:A Judgment Day on you and all the Hamans, today and forevermore—
Haman:Amen! Mordecai, I think you and I will yet be good friends—yes, Motya? [Maudlin.] Come closer, Motya, and I’ll tell you…
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Chaim Sloves
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Paris, Military Administration in France (Paris, France)
Date:
1940
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I wasn’t a very political adolescent. I had grown up surrounded by unexplained cautions, by ellipses, and all these silences had sealed off the public world, so that I didn’t really believe in it…
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Paul Zweig
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Paris, France
Date:
1986
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In their glory days during the Renaissance, the king’s fools occupied a privileged place at court: dressed in sumptuous garments comparable in every detail to those of the kingdom’s great, in scarlet…
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Pierre Birnbaum
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Paris, France
Date:
1992
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[ . . . ] The past two years of the Hitler regime (1938–1939) have led many people to the impression that this is the beginning of the destruction of European…
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Simon Dubnov
Date:
1939
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The means of making the Jews happy and useful? Here it is: stop making them unhappy and unuseful. Accord them, or rather return to them the right of citizens, which you have denied them, against all…
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Zalkind Hourwitz
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1789
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Judaism’s approach to history is shaped by the fact that unlike other religions, it locates perfection not at the beginning but at the end of history. This, surely, is the…
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Elijah Benamozegh
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Livorno, Kingdom of Italy (Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1863
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Artist Unknown
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
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ca. 1848
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Alphonse Lévy
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1870–1871
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[ . . . ] Why does the present Jewish fate appear so strongly connected to our entire past and to all that is currently unfolding before our eyes? At times it seemed that many distinct events stood…
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Oskar Yeshayahu Wolfsberg
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1939
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Political modernity, by making the varied dimensions of existence automatic and, in particular, by separating the political from the religious, posed the problem of Jewish identity in a dramatic…
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Dominique Schnapper, Chantal Bordes-Benayoun
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Paris, France
Date:
1989