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In the year 5289 (1528/29), the holy martyrs of Pösing, 36 souls—men and women, youths and young girls—were arrested because of a false accusation made by a mamzer, and they died for the…
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Josel of Rosheim
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(Alsace, France)
Date:
1551/2
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
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ca. 1790
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Just then Don Iudá took off his coat and greeted us one by one. My mother, out of breath as we’d been in such a hurry to come, explained everything in short choppy phrases.
We children would stay…
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Humberto Costantini
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1967
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O Russians, you who love your fellow men! You would shudder from the bottoms of your kind hearts if you saw the effect of that terrible accusation which Jews who were eyewitnesses to the unjustified…
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Lev Nevakhovich
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1803
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We’re laughing our heads off:
None of us wears a top-hat
We just go around with heads—or without heads—
But the Rabbi of Uman
Holds up a mirror to the sun.
We laugh our heads off
When a gang comes…
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Leyb Kvitko
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1923
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Without warning, on the 20th of April, 1749, at the end of the Passover Festival, Sunday, at about 17 hours [noon], I was kidnapped and taken away by force thanks to a false denunciation made against…
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Anna del Monte
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
1749
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I’m in a rage, so angry that I don’t know what to do
because of what just happened when I went out with a few
good friends to take a walk in town, this lovely Sabbath day.
We joined a crowd of rowdy…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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Human wisdom has limits—stupidity has none.
God created a world with gifts and blessings for all: earth and water, sun and air in plenty, rye and wheat in abundance, a potato for everyone, a roof…
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Chaim Lieberman
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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Anti-Semitism in my infancy, had its compensations, for being confined practically to children (I speak of anti-Semitism not as a subjective attitude but in its…
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William Goldman
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Vienna, Nazi Germany
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1940
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Matthäus Merian
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1628