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For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
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George Steiner
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1966
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There is no denying that under the influence of this enthusiasm for America, the disintegrating process of the Melting Pot is taking place in large measure. That it is not, fortunately, taking place…
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Judah L. Magnes
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1909
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Before I left Chicago, the art critic Harold Rosenberg said to me, “Going to Jerusalem? And wondering whether people will talk freely? You’ve got to be kidding, they’ll talk your head off.” He spoke…
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Saul Bellow
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Chicago, United States of America
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1976
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Tunis, November 1920
Zionism still continues to make progress in Tunisia. In all the major cities of the Regency, Zionist committees have already been established. In Tunis itself there…
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Alliance Israélite Universelle
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Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)
Tangier, French Protectorate in Morocco (Tangier, Morocco)
Sousse, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Sousse, Tunisia)
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1920–1938
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To be in exile, with a religious or historical sense that one is exiled, is to have already a mission and purpose in life. One’s clear project then is to end the exile and to return to…
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Morris Grossman
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Fairfield, United States of America
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1986
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In late November 1947, in what had once been a quiet suburb of Jerusalem, I first heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls. I was at the time Chief of Operations of Haganah, the Jewish underground self-defence…
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Yigael Yadin
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1957
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A man over eighty is seated at his desk, looking up at an old picture, one more than fifty years old. His eyes meet with those of a beautiful old woman, a woman who was born a…
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Zvi Hirsch Masliansky
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New York City, United States of America
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1924
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New York January 17, 1915
Dear Mrs. Julius Rosenwald,
Let me congratulate you and Palestine upon having secured as you tell me in your telegram, a “splendid response from a local” [Chicago Jewish…
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Henrietta Szold
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1915