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[ . . . ] In the summer of 1903 I traveled to Russia, where I was to meet with the heads of the socialist revolutionary groups in various cities in south Russia and on the Volga…
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Menahem Mendel Rosenbaum
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1921–1924
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It is difficult in a short article to give the history of Jewish labor in the Peruvian Amazon. I can’t pretend to do justice to such an arduous task. The history of…
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Yaacov Hasson
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1969
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Nineteen nineteen was one of the most difficult years for the Bolsheviks. The civil war flared up in every corner of Russia. In Ukraine, Petliura, Grigoriev, Denikin…
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Daniel Charney
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Moscow, USSR
(Moscow, Russia)
Wilno, Second Polish Republic
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Warszawa, French Republic
(New York City, United States of America)
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Late 1930s
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For the past few years, both in France and Germany, I was awed by the valiant struggle of people who, though only recently liberated from indescribable cruelty, exhibited extraordinary powers of…
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Leo W. Schwarz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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Photographs shock us in so far as they show us something novel. Unfortunately, the ante keeps getting raised—partly through the very proliferation of such images of horror. One’s first encounter with…
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Susan Sontag
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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A letter from Zuckerman, the commissioner, evidently written by an agitated hand. It had come from Brest Litovsk bringing the news of horror. He had been in Pinsk and…
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Boris D. Bogen
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1930
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Even in the past, some thirty to forty years ago, when Jewish life in Russia was still very conservative, there was a difference between those cities and towns located…
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Meir Berlin
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1933
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Why do I begin with the parachutists? Were I to trace the story of Jewish resistance and rescue chronologically, I would have to use a different order. I would have to begin with the gradual…
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Marie Syrkin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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The leader and the soul of Iskra was Lenin. And although he was surrounded by a group of brilliant writers and first-class leaders (indeed, all enjoyed equal rights in a…
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Vladimir Medem
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…
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Zelig Kalmanovitch
Date:
1942