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We live in a time of a universal striving for science and civilization, and the spirit of the time warms the hearts of everyone alike with its breath. It permeates the depths of the soul and reason…
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Israel Leon Grosglik
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1869
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Paris, December 1876
To Mr. President and Members of the Conference of Constantinople
Sirs,
You were nominated to discuss the interests of a great number of people in the Orient, and to accomplish a…
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Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1877
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The puritanically strict observance of the closing hour in London, the lack of continental-style coffee-houses, and perhaps also the isolated situation of the by no means untroubled British Isles may…
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Egon Erwin Kisch
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1924
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So, is it not an injustice for girls to be so neglected that the refined feelings which are God’s gift to all mankind are often destroyed in them? But if you speak to Jewish parents they will tell you…
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Urye Kahan, Alexander Zederbaum
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1863
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God be praised, it is now a year since we began printing our supplement to Ha-melits, the Kol mevaser, the world’s first newspaper in plain Yiddish. At first, many people ridiculed us, but time has…
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Urye Kahan
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1863
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A Conversation between Abou Khalil and Abou Naddara Zarqa at Café Riche, Boulevard des Italiens, on the Night of the 14th of July 1878, Paris
[ . . . ] Abou Khalil::
Good Lord, I’ve missed your banter…
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James Sanua
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1878
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“Miss Duncan? The dancer? What is that—ballet?” No, it is not ballet. Missing here are the two predominant elements that make up modern ballet: there is neither dance technique nor women wearing…
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Arkadii Georgevich Gornfeld
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1905
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In these days when Jews are being killed in Palestine, I chose to go to Grenadierstrasse—not to Jerusalem. I had the feeling it was better to be with the bereaved than the dead. I paid a condolence…
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Joseph Roth
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1929
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The synagogues where older and more modest congregants pray are spared to some extent. It is a good thing that they are closed all day and all night and are opened only for early morning prayers and…
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A. Grodner
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1866
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But I want to go on recounting how the Prague movement developed, and what made the revolution, which brought so many impressive, great, and noble things to light everywhere, made everything in Prague…
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Moritz Hartmann
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Stuttgart, German Empire
(Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1874