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Now, more than at any time in the history of our people, humor has a place in Jewish life. I was delighted to find the Jewish Publication Society in agreement with me that at the present time…
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Samuel Felix Mendelsohn
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1941
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All of us—dying here in polar, ice-cold indifference of nations, forgotten by the world and its hustle and bustle—have nonetheless felt the need to leave something for posterity: if not complete…
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Avraham Levite
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1945
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We live in a prison. We have been degraded to the level of homeless and uncared-for animals. When we…
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Abraham Lewin
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1941
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A fire is now sweeping over the whole Old World, threatening to annihilate, heaven forbid, more than two-thirds of the Jewish people. Nobody can guarantee that the fire, heaven…
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Yosef Yitshak Schneersohn
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1941
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…
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Zelig Kalmanovitch
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1942
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Any public Jewish institution that is inextricably tied to the greater Jewish community can only express its deep sorrow as it looks back over the past year. Hundreds of thousands of our brethren, the…
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Fülöp Grünwald
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1943
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I entitled this volume Em Habanim Semeḥah [Psalms 113:9], based on the Jerusalem tractate of Berakhot (toward the close of the second chapter) which portrays Erets Yisrael as the mother of Israel and…
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Issachar Shlomo Teichtal
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1943
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The mass mind is eminently retentive. Man, in Nietzsche’s definition, is the being with the longest memory, and José Ortega y Gasset has recently affirmed (in his Toward a Philosophy of History) the…
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Joshua Trachtenberg
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1943
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We know that a writer has no power except in the pen. Nevertheless there are times when it behooves us to alter the ordinary manner of expression. There are times when the author, too, must depart…
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Asher Barash
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Kefar Shemaryahu, Mandate Palestine (Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel)
Date:
1944
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The journal is my life, my companion and my confidant. Without it I would be lost. In it I pour out all my heart’s feelings, until I feel somewhat relieved. When I am angry and…
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Chaim A. Kaplan
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941