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The renaissance of the Maccabean festival, which began with the onset of modern nationalism, signified a great revolution in Jewish thinking. The Jew aspired to leave behind the unworthy life of exile…
Contributor:
Robert Weltsch
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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[ . . . ] The eve of the Jewish Day of Atonement. In the morning, I wander down Gesia Street, a long thoroughfare. A few stores are still open, the majority are already closing. A tremendous human…
Contributor:
Alfred Döblin
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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Nineteen nineteen was one of the most difficult years for the Bolsheviks. The civil war flared up in every corner of Russia. In Ukraine, Petliura, Grigoriev, Denikin…
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Daniel Charney
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Wilno, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Warszawa, Second Polish Republic
Paris, French Republic
Date:
Late 1930s
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Blessed Adonai,
may Haman always die,
viva Mordechai,
Esther my lady.
Viva my lady,
blessed Adonai,
may Haman always die,
viva Mordechai.
David:
It is…
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Unknown
Places:
Hamburg, Free Imperial City of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1699
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Paul Christian Kirchner
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1724
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Wisdom rests quietly in a wise man (Proverbs 14:33); nothing which he purposes to do will be withheld from him [see Job 42:2]. I envisioned a man who was diligent in his labor, who was as bright as…
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Unknown
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Frankfurt- Oder, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
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A foreign crawling black stain, that’s what he was—the kosher butcher—in the new, not yet completed, but sparkling white Jewish settlement. Leading up to the High Holidays, he chastised impiety at…
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David Bergelson
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928
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Martha Jadassohn had come with her parents from a small West Poznanian town, named either Bobst or Meseritz, to Berlin where her father’s only sister, a widow, was living alone…
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Gertrud Kolmar
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1931
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This is a universal history of the Jewish people in that it fully corresponds to the contents and the scope of this…
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Simon Dubnov
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925–1929
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We are limiting ourselves here to reworking the materials about causes of death and illnesses among Jews. The causes have in recent years been shown to the public in the official…
Contributor:
Israel Koralnik
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928