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One may consider this work a sort of memorial book that captures the history of the Jews and Judaism in our century. It does not narrate stories but reports; it presents personages about whom I was…
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Moritz Lazarus
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1887
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A healthy mind lives in a healthy body!This old Latin adage never received proper attention among us Jews, although we do not doubt its truth. Accepted in theory, its thought did not…
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Hermann Jalowicz
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1900
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When an intimidated individual or a careerist among my brethren feels inclined or forced to identify himself as a son of his forefathers, then he usually describes himself—provided he was not baptized…
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Albert Einstein
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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I—a Jewess—am by definition not a member of the species, or: why should a Jewess not have problems with public assistance and with her children? The postwar German Jew, to the extent that such a being…
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Esther Dischereit
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New York, United States of America
(Berlin, Germany)
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1994
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But look, girl, if you so rarely find the opportunity to take a book into your hand, at least make a point of reading good books, not such kitsch as the Spinoza novel you have just sent me. Why do…
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1916
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On the third morning, as soon as I was alone, I found the way to the mellah [in Marrakesh]. I came to an intersection where many Jews were standing around. Traffic was streaming past them and around a…
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Elias Canetti
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Munich, Germany
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1968
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I want to profess straight off that I am a Jew. Does it require justification if I write in a spirit other than that of defending the Jews? Many of my fellow tribesmen know themselves only as Germans…
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Walter Rathenau
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1897
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When it came time for me to start school, my mother went to the director of the Wilhelm Pieck School in Katowice, Poland, where we were living then, to register me. My sister, nine years my senior…
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Henryk M. Broder
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(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1979
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October 10, 1912 Berlin-Grunewald Delbrückstr. 23 Dear Mr. Strauß!That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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Not seldom, when in conversation my partner draws me into a plural—that is, as soon as he includes my person in whatever connection and says to me: “We Jews . . .”—I feel a not exactly tormenting, but…
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Jean Améry
Places:
Munich, West Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1966