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In every caste system the lower caste occupies a marginal position vis-à-vis the upper caste. The Jews were a marginal element to the Polish nobility. The margin was not isolated, for the Jews could…
Contributor:
Aleksander Hertz
Places:
Paris, Polish People’s Republic
(Poland)
Date:
1961
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This book is intended as a description of a “traditional society”—that is, a society that saw itself as based upon a body of knowledge and a set of values handed down to…
Contributor:
Jacob Katz
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1958
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Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, the so-called “Days of Awe” arrived.
There was no Jew in all of Bom Retiro who, God forbid, would ever think of not observing them. Any endeavor, no matter how important…
Contributor:
Eliezer Levin
Places:
São Paulo, Brazil
Date:
1972
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Anonymous
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1741
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The refugees sat with their spoons halfway to their mouths, apparently listening with great seriousness, and trying with all their might not to burst into gales of laughter. The long, skinny lady left…
Contributor:
Esther Singer Kreitman
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1944
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Born in Halberstadt, northern Germany, Alexander David (1687–1765) served as Court Jew to Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, providing the ducal court with luxury items as well as banking…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Braunschweig, Holy Roman Empire
(Braunschweig, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
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Child of a lonely traveller
in a strange country
I live towards my doom
closed in a small tight room.
Closed in a small tight room
where whitehaired quiet ladies
claw the walls conspire in lies
and…
Contributor:
Miriam Waddington
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
1966