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It is remarkable to observe how prejudice changes its form in every century in order to oppress us and to pose difficulties for our admission to civil society. In former, superstitious times, it was…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1782
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The means of making the Jews happy and useful? Here it is: stop making them unhappy and unuseful. Accord them, or rather return to them the right of citizens, which you have denied them, against all…
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Zalkind Hourwitz
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1789
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Weary from the journey, confused by what she was seeing, shaken by the vicissitudes of the day, and straining to repress her rage, which was getting away from her in spite of herself—and always…
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Savyon Liebrecht
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Bnei Brak, Israel
Date:
1986
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In their glory days during the Renaissance, the king’s fools occupied a privileged place at court: dressed in sumptuous garments comparable in every detail to those of the kingdom’s great, in scarlet…
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Pierre Birnbaum
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Stanford, United States of America
(Paris, France)
Date:
1992
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The belated adoption of the first law of Jewish emancipation has led to the assumption that it had no practical value. True as this statement may be technically, it nevertheless needs further…
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George Barany
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Denver, United States of America
Date:
1974
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The era of Western history that began with the French Revolution ended in Auschwitz. The emancipation of the Jews was reversed in the most horrendous way. For a short while after 1945 the reigning…
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Arthur Hertzberg
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Englewood, United States of America
Date:
1968
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I was born on 19 February 1758 in Nový Bydžov [in Bohemia] of well-to-do parents who destined me at birth to be a rabbi, a common practice among the Israelites then. For at that time, when all…
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Peter Beer
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Prague, Austrian Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1839
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O Russians, you who love your fellow men! You would shudder from the bottoms of your kind hearts if you saw the effect of that terrible accusation which Jews who were eyewitnesses to the unjustified…
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Lev Nevakhovich
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1803
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Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, was appointed to rule the short-lived Kingdom of Westphalia, which Napoleon established in Northern Germany. This medal celebrates his grant of emancipation to…
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1808
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The terms “recent generations” or “modern times” are commonly employed to denote the period of history which is close to us not only in time, but also in character—in its material circumstances…
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Ben-Zion Dinur
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1937