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My grandfather’s kinsman, a Jew who tamed bears,
Performed in the market towns;
By day his beast was confined in chains;
At night, they danced under the stars.
Nicknamed “Ten Commandments,” the man…
Contributor:
Moyshe Kulbak
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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A Gift to Hofshteyn
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Aharon Kushnirov
Date:
1922
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O God of Hosts, our God from of old,
Was it for this that You selected our ancestors from days of yore
That You took their descendants as an inheritance for Yourself
To set them up as the target of…
Contributor:
Abraham Dov (Adam) ha-Kohen Lebensohn
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1842
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Two years ago, during a committee meeting at the Congress in Basle, I said: “We must think of creating once again a Jewry of muscles.”
Once again! For history is our witness that such a Jewry had…
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Max Nordau
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1903
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Much has been written concerning the pogroms of Jews in the Ukraine in 1918–21. Countless reports of the atrocities perpetrated by the bandits in various cities and towns were published in the Jewish…
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Nahum Gergel
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928
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About Grzhebin on canvas, about Grzhebin in the flesh.Since the letter is written in a penitent mood, the trademark of the Grzhebin Publishing House is affixed. Here too are several…
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Viktor Shklovsky
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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On the day of Walter Rathenau’s funeral in 1922, all mail and telephone service in Germany was suspended between 2:00 and 2:10 pm
“If he won’t honor our invoice, I’ll simply give him a buzz. Put the…
Contributor:
Kurt Tucholsky
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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In came the beginning of the month of December 1918.
Like the cheerless, cold drizzle, dirty frozen air hovers over the fields. Everywhere fragments of sky seem to be scattered over mounds of earth…
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David Bergelson
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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After Moshkele found his way to the Goyim’s Street, he began to be a regular and made the acquaintance of the shkotsim [“goyish” boys]. At first they mocked the little Yid who had wandered…
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Yitsḥak Dov Berkowitz
Places:
Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1903
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Among the living nations of the earth the Jews occupy the position of a nation long since dead. With the loss of their fatherland, the Jews lost their independence and fell into a state of decay…
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Leon Pinsker
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Russia)
Date:
1882