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Abraham from Odessa changed his name. He had to if he wanted to get ahead at Ford where he got a job painting stripes on Model Ts. Fifty years later Albert retired, a vice-president in the tractor…
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Ken Aptekar
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New York, United States of America
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1996
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Once Clara asked me, “How come your family emigrated to Canada, of all places? I thought the Jews went to New York.”
I was born Canadian, I explained, because my grandfather, a ritual slaughterer, was…
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Mordecai Richler
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New York, United States of America
(Montreal, Canada)
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1997
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George Boehm
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New York, United States of America
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1912
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There is no denying that under the influence of this enthusiasm for America, the disintegrating process of the Melting Pot is taking place in large measure. That it is not, fortunately, taking place…
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Judah L. Magnes
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1909
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The library is an integral part of public education.—“Public Libraries.”
The library and the public school occupy the most important…
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Helene Sheinberg
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New York, United States of America
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1913
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As soon as [Opotowski] came, he and the others were told that their chances of securing employment in a region where there are few Jews will be much better if they do not have such long beards. He and…
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Cyrus L. Sulzberger
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New York, United States of America
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1907
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I was born and raised in Fuerth, a predominantly Protestant manufacturing city of Middle Franconia, with a large Jewish community consisting principally of artisans and tradesmen. The Jews formed…
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Jakob Wasserman
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1921
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[ . . . ] That the status of the Jews in Europe has been not only that of an oppressed people but also of what Max Weber has called a “pariah people” is a fact most clearly appreciated by those who…
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Hannah Arendt
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1944
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But what about the future? Does the American-Jewish community possess those traits and characteristics which, as we know from the experience of a dozen Diaspora communities over two thousand years…
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Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
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New York, United States of America
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1953
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[ . . . V]iewed from the broad historic perspective, it is not at all surprising that American Jewry has not yet produced those great cultural achievements for which we are all…
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Salo W. Baron
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New York, United States of America
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1962