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I speak to you as an American Jew.
As Americans we share the profound concern of millions of people about the shame and disgrace of inequality and injustice which make a mockery of the great American…
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Joachim Prinz
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Washington, United States of America
Date:
1963
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Why now? Why write about anti-Semitism in the Women’s Movement when we have the Moral Majority and Ronald Reagan to worry about?Because, very simply, it’s there. And because I am a Jew who has been…
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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New York, United States of America
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1982
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Artist Unknown
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Selma, United States of America
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1965
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No one can order his face in advance
And you shouldn’t throw a stone at a dog
Showing its howling muzzle to the night sky.
But when I think about it,
Losing myself in sadness, in this night-cafe
Fogg…
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Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1927
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I felt a common cause with these good men and women who had been moved to mid-wife freedom in the south, but the gulf that separated us is also wide. Their spirit of confession…
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Betty Alschuler
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1962
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South African Jews are forever conscious of injustice, but of the injustice that they alone are made to suffer. They quickly grow furious over the treatment of Israel, the power politics…
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Ronald Segal, Dan Jacobson
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1957
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There are things in this country too—
And if they find no streetlamp pole,
There will be a tree—and that means clearly
That a Negro over twenty years old
May hate all things which spire
To hold a man…
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Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1934
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And veins web her temples,
and my father pins on the orchid,
and my card names her the best mother.
But Alzheimer’s or arteriosclerosis (the end is the same)
praises him ad nauseum,
but accuses my…
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Hugh Seidman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in American economic, cultural, intellectual, and political life. Jews played a central role in American finance during the 1980s, and…
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Benjamin Ginsberg
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1993
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What, exactly, has the argument been about—apart from the words themselves? Have the Jews and the blacks been fighting all this time over political spoils? Not especially. Over economic interests…
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Paul Berman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1994