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Everything, nearly everything, was taken away from us in the ghettos and concentration camps by the great criminals. They did not spare our treasures, both material and spiritual. Even our…
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Israel Kaplan
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Munich, West Germany
(Germany)
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1949
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Without the appropriate distance, writing history is particularly difficult and thorny in this case. And there is an additional element of complexity. Forced into the thankless role of the prosecutor…
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Josef Wulf, Léon Poliakov
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Berlin, West Germany
(Germany)
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1955
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I often said to a younger girl friend: “If you are marrying without love, after all, do not talk to your husband. Please him as much as your nature can tolerate; do not argue with…
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Rahel Levin Varnhagen
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1799–1800
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But was it surprising, when in the midst of such social circumstances or actually disarray, an intellectual sociability was offered, despite the prejudices that prevailed against the Jews at that time…
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Henriette de Lemos Herz
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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Free of any preoccupations, I allowed myself to seek out and investigate the Jews, their manners and customs. They are good-hearted folk, charitable and hospitable to strangers. They honor the Torah…
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Samuel Romanelli
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1792
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“Back at home, I pulled myself together and reflected on what had happened. Given how the people had behaved when they heard the wrongheaded and hateful rabbi’s curse of excommunication, I realized…
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Ludwig Philippson
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Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia
(Magdeburg, Germany)
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1854
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In the evening through her garden
Wanders the Alcalde’s daughter;
Festal sounds of drum and trumpet
Ring out hither from the castle.
“I am weary of the dances,
Honeyed words of adulation
From the…
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Heinrich Heine
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Göttingen, German Confederation
(Göttingen, Germany)
Date:
1827
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O God of Hosts, our God from of old,
Was it for this that You selected our ancestors from days of yore
That You took their descendants as an inheritance for Yourself
To set them up as the target of…
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Abraham Dov (Adam) ha-Kohen Lebensohn
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1842
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In times of emergency, all types of kitniyot (legumes, pulses) may certainly be permitted to be eaten during Passover, for even our Master, the Ba‘al Ha-Turim [Rabbenu Jacob, son of Asher]…
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Jacob Emden
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
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1761
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Better still than this is that they should recite the “Verses of Praise,” Yigdal and Adon Olam, and the other exalted prayers on Sabbaths and festivals to the accompaniment of the harp and the sound…
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Aaron Chorin
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1818