Showing Results 1 - 5 of 5
Restricted
Text
The peace of the Almighty God be with you and with all those who in their faith hope for and desire His grace and mercy.
Dear and good friends and brethren of Israel.
In your letter, you complain…
Contributor:
Gershom Katz, Ḥayyim Schwarz, Josel of Rosheim
Places:
Holy Roman Empire (Alsace, France)
Date:
1539
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
[ . . . ] 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…
Contributor:
Simon Dubnov
Date:
1939
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Sensitive Content
We have awoken from a horrible nightmare that I believed myself unable to describe to you.
The sack of the Mellah [the Jewish quarter of the city] by the mutinous Sherifian troops began at midday on…
Contributor:
Avraham Elmaleh
Places:
Fez, French Protectorate of Morocco (Fes, Morocco)
Date:
1912
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
V.
The degradation took place Saturday, the 5th of January. I underwent the horrible torture without weakness.
Before the ceremony, I waited for an hour in the hall of the garrison…
Contributor:
Alfred Dreyfus
Places:
Devil's Island, French Guyana (Devil's Island, Guyana)
Date:
1895
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
It is plain for all to see, sir, that our youth is abandoning our language—but why? Because in their eyes it is a dead and useless tongue. All our efforts to make them appreciate the importance of the…
Contributor:
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1880