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Mom was taken away, I don’t know exactly where. Dad says she is in a nice place where they take good care of her. I miss her…although I understand. Dad says she suffered from a sickening love for…
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Alcina Lubitch Domecq
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1984
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Mrs. Levy made it her business to be our eyes and ears, the supplier of all information and news. Her job would be easy this time—she had the good fortune to live directly across the street from…
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Tova Mirvis
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Newton, United States of America
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1999
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The theater troupe at the Saidye Bronfman Centre decided to practice a bit of outreach to the city’s French Canadian majority by staging a play by the Québécois dramatist Michel Tremblay. It wouldn’t…
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Alan M. Tigay
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Northvale, United States of America
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1993
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Jewish identity in the preemancipation period assumed essentially one of two forms—religion or communalism. Each in its own way was a break with tradition. Each was predicated on acceptance of the…
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Charles S. Liebman
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Philadelphia, United States of America
(Ramat Gan, Israel)
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1973
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The Jewish community as a whole is a unique blend of kinship and consent. […] The fact that Jews are born Jewish places them in a special position to begin with, one that more often than not has…
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Daniel J. Elazar
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Philadelphia, United States of America
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1976
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The use of the notion of “community” to define French Judaism is not self-evident. On the one hand, if “community” renders the medieval kahal, the concept has a long history and has engendered any…
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Shmuel Trigano
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Oxford, United Kingdom
(Nanterre, France)
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1994
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Within a few weeks the season arrived for merry walks in the marvelous woods, gay boat rides on the river, poetic campfires beneath dark, satiny skies, boisterous breachings of the silence of the…
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Uri Nisan Gnessin
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(Lithuania, Lithuania)
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1905
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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…
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Joseph Nehama
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1913
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Conscious of the fact that our national work is of no value as long as there is no measurably large and measurably strong Hebrew workers party in the land of Israel, we have set ourselves the goal of…
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Yosef Aronovich
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Israel, Israel)
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1907
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Weep and wail, O daughters of Zion!
The women were meeting in Don Moisés’ house to recite the lamentations required by ritual. These were the days set aside to recall the loss…
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Alberto Gerchunoff
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1910