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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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Paris, France
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1992
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For fifty years, Jews of the West were protected by the shield of Nazism. As Bernanos wrote, Hitler had given antisemitism a bad name.We supposed this bad name to be permanent. Yet it…
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Alain Finkielkraut
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Paris, France
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2004
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[ . . . ] The past two years of the Hitler regime (1938–1939) have led many people to the impression that this is the beginning of the destruction of European…
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Simon Dubnov
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1939
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And thus it came to pass, and this was the beginning . . . Heavens tell me, why?
Tell me, why this, O why? What have we done to merit such disgrace?
The earth is dumb and…
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Yitshak Katzenelson
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Vittel, Military Administration in France (Vittel, France)
Date:
1944
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Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas…
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René Cassin
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Paris, France
Date:
1948
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A retrospective exhibit these last few weeks at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris—perhaps too generously big an undertaking—has allowed a wider public to appreciate the originality and importance of…
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Édouard Roditi
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1963
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No Jew, whether a believer or an unbeliever, Zionist or anti-Zionist, can be objective when what is at stake is Israel and the two and a half million Jews who built a State in a land equally Holy for…
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Raymond Aron
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Paris, France
Date:
1967
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I was born in Tunisia, in Tunis, a few steps from that city’s large ghetto. My father, a harness maker, was somewhat pious, naturally somewhat so, as were all men of his trade and his station in life…
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Albert Memmi
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Paris, France
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1962
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The story of my life is only exceptional in that it represents a great change of identity in the heart of the Jewish people. [ . . . ]
I was born a Jewish Algerian—a French citizen to boot—and during…
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Léon Ashkenazi
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Orsay, France
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1967
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[ . . . ] It seemed to him that an eternal silence was closing down upon the Jewish breed marching to slaughter—that no heir, no memory would supervene to prolong the silent parade of victims, no…
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André Schwarz-Bart
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Paris, France
Date:
1959