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To Freud, all forms of religious observance were foolish and superstitious. His wife Martha, on the other hand, took religion much more seriously, as her grandfather had been a prominent rabbi in…
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Ralph Steadman
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New York City, United States of America
(Kent, United Kingdom)
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1979
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Esteemed Friend and Editor:
Recently a friend of mine, who is a member of the Workmen’s Circle Chorus, visited, bringing with her the…
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J. Levitt
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Los Angeles, United States of America
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1918
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For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
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George Steiner
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New York City, United States of America
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1966
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Dear Editor,
I am a Russian revolutionist and a freethinker. Here in America I became acquainted with a girl who is also a freethinker. We decided to marry, but the problem is that she has Orthodox…
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The Forward
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New York, United States of America
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1906
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With the Grace of God, Sunday, [the week of parshat] Beshalaḥ 5658 [1898], Sighet
To my honorable friend, the famous sage, who is both rooted in the knowledge of [Torah from Mt.] Sinai and who uproots…
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Kedushas Yom Tov
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Sziget, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Szigetvár, Hungary)
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1898
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To be in exile, with a religious or historical sense that one is exiled, is to have already a mission and purpose in life. One’s clear project then is to end the exile and to return to…
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Morris Grossman
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Fairfield, United States of America
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1986
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When death comes to me, whether in France or abroad, I leave it to my dear wife or, failing her, to my children, to arrange for such burial as may seem best to them. I wish the ceremony to be a civil…
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Marc Bloch
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1940