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My name is Benillouche, Alexandre Mordekhai.
How galling the smiles of my classmates! In our alley, and at the Alliance School, I hadn’t known how ridiculous, how revealing, my name could be…
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Albert Memmi
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1953
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Presess Rumkowski plunged into the sea of activities and duties like a brave captain who knows his destination, sure that no blizzard, no stormy chaos will cause the ship entrusted into his hands by…
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Chava Rosenfarb
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1972
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Five years after the death of his second wife Reb Meshulam Moskat married for a third time. His new wife was a woman in her fifties, from Galicia, in eastern Austria, the widow of a wealthy brewer…
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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1950
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This book is intended as a description of a “traditional society”—that is, a society that saw itself as based upon a body of knowledge and a set of values handed down to…
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Jacob Katz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1958
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Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, the so-called “Days of Awe” arrived.
There was no Jew in all of Bom Retiro who, God forbid, would ever think of not observing them. Any endeavor, no matter how important…
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Eliezer Levin
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São Paulo, Brazil
Date:
1972
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I have just spent a few days in Tunis.
My pleasure increases each time I return to that city and its inhabitants and experience the liveliness of the Avenue Jules-Ferry, and above all, the free and…
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Jacques Lazarus
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Algiers, Algeria
Date:
1948
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I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted…
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Saul Bellow
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1953
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On the first day they sailed, the Pechofs saw the film called Argentina, the Promised Land. The screen had been divided into four parts like a coat of arms, and they saw wheat fields, cows in profile…
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Mario Szichman
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1971
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1676
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That is how it is with the Jews. They shed many a tear for the past. That they fared better under liberalism does not guarantee the justice of the latter. Even the French Revolution, which helped the…
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Max Horkheimer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1939