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“If God grant that the earth will be full of understanding, and everyone will speak the same language, Ashkenazic, then only (the form) Brisk will be written.” That is how Meir ben Moses Hacohen, the…
Contributor:
Solomon Birnbaum
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Hamburg, Weimar Republic
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1925
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About Grzhebin on canvas, about Grzhebin in the flesh.Since the letter is written in a penitent mood, the trademark of the Grzhebin Publishing House is affixed. Here too are several…
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Viktor Shklovsky
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1923
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[ . . . ] After the intractable insolence shown by Süss when his sentence was pronounced, he was fettered cross-wise in the Chamber of Nobles, where he was to be confined until execution, and kept…
Contributor:
Lion Feuchtwanger
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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Ludwig Meidner
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1919
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.
Contributor:
Menachem Birnbaum
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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Henryk Berlewi
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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David Heinz Gumbel
Places:
Heilbronn, Weimar Republic
(Heilbronn, Germany)
Date:
1930–1939
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In these days when Jews are being killed in Palestine, I chose to go to Grenadierstrasse—not to Jerusalem. I had the feeling it was better to be with the bereaved than the dead. I paid a condolence…
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Joseph Roth
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1929
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In came the beginning of the month of December 1918.
Like the cheerless, cold drizzle, dirty frozen air hovers over the fields. Everywhere fragments of sky seem to be scattered over mounds of earth…
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David Bergelson
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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He married Sonechka early, out of love. He loved her passionately only for the first two years. Then he lost interest but didn’t even notice it. He wasn’t thinking about love and women as a rule. He…
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Semyon Yushkevich
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922