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When breakfast was over, I had to go to the synagogue, rain or shine, for it was Saturday morning. I used to sit next to Bernard and Simon. We would wear our skull caps and whisper to each other…
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Dannie Abse
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1954
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Shortly before Paris was occupied, Maurice had me return to my native Morocco.
My parents—my dear parents whom I loved so much and whom I never saw again—were, alas, dead. The other members of the…
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Degracia
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Paris, France
Date:
1968
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2. What was it that made for the peculiar position of the Jews in the Middle Ages and later, until emancipation came along? It was the ghetto, we are told and told again, which was at the root of…
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Max Weinreich
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1967
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This morning I met Vaclav on the street.
“God himself has arranged our meeting,” he continued after the usual greetings and inquiries about health. “Walking here, I thought of you.”
“Might I be able…
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Lev Levanda
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871–1873
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Of course I could explain the history and the comings and goings of the Jews, assuring you that they have suffered much, that everyone persecuted them because they could, that those caricatures you’d…
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David Viñas
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1957
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In the month of Tevet of the same year I entered that school and began studying Greek with tremendous dedication. I repented of all my previous actions and habits, just as I had promised my father (of…
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Abraham Rosanes
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Ruse, Ottoman Empire (Ruse, Bulgaria)
Date:
1864
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I wish, then, to describe the four classes to which Jews today belong in order to derive therefrom the principal claim of this discussion, namely: to the extent that the Jews do not take advantage of…
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Lazarus Bendavid
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Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1793
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In describing the psychology of what he calls the “inauthentic Jew” among Gentiles, Sartre does not distinguish between the psychology of what I call the “inauthentic” Jew—the Jew who desires, so to…
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Sidney Hook
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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The bird cawed hoarsely and with a flap of its bedraggled wings—feathers tufted this way and that—rose heavily to the top of the open kitchen door, where it perched staring down.
“Gevalt, a pogrom!”
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Bernard Malamud
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1963
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Rise and go to the town of the killings and you’ll come to the yards
and with your eyes and your own hand feel the fence
and on the trees and on the stones and plaster of the walls
the congealed…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Kishinev, Russian Empire (Chisinau, Moldova)
Date:
1903