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A Holocaust survivor grapples with the question: should one bring children into the world after experiencing the horrors of the death camps?
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Imre Kertész
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1990
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One of the comrades on sick call had a chat with an army guard. This is the account he gave:
“How stupid can you get, I ask you, what are the limits of human stupidity! This…
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Erno Szép
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Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1945
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We are calling upon the Hungarian general public and especially our Jewish coreligionists to support a new undertaking. Our undertaking does not seek to compete with an existing one; rather, it…
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Wilhelm Bacher, József Bánóczi
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1884
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“Consummatum est!” I could exclaim on January 1, 1876.The minister [Jozsef Eötvös] frivolously deceived me. His promise turned out to be a premeditated lie. Scorn and sarcasm were his response when I…
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Ignác Goldziher
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1890
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Social and judicial reforms will not solve the universal Jewish question, nor will they bring an answer to the Hungarian Jewish question; they can only solve internal technical issues, which, as we…
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Ármin Beregi
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1917
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One of them sits by the rivers of the East
And her eye reflects the innocent God of peace;
And the other sits by the rivers of the West
And dreams a dream.
And in the evenings of good will if thou…
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Avigdor Hameiri
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1912
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Dark-faced foreigners have flooded the city. They go about rushing through the boulevards, but in the suburbs they already stop to congregate, talk in a strong and loud voice, heavily gesticulating. I…
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Sándor Bródy
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1915
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My travel bag was lost somewhere between Szerencs and Nyíregyháza. It contained: a tallis, two pairs of tefillin, together with a Yeshuas Yisroel prayer book. There were also two High…
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Lipót Burkos
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1915
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Can Jews remain in East-Central Europe? That is the question.
Hungary has between eighty and a hundred thousand Jews, Romania about twenty thousand, the rest of the countries a few thousand each. Jews…
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György Konrád
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1991
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Dedicated to Dr. Zunz, the grandmaster of Jewish scholarship, on his 90th birthday.
Contributor:
Wilhelm Bacher
Places:
Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1884