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Not too long ago, few Jews—or Christians, for that matter—would have had difficulty justifying the existence of a Jewish state. The destruction of European Jewry left a profound impression on the…
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Yoram Hazony
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New York City, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
2000
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A simple searing truth emerges from the vast body of research and writing on the Holocaust. It is that European Jewry was ground to dust between the twin millstones of a murderous Nazi intent and a…
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Henry L. Feingold
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1979
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Odets:(pulls a silver cigarette case from his pocket, takes out an unfiltered cigarette, offers the case to Werfel) Smoke?
Werfel:Nicotine is bad for you…thanks. (He takes out three cigarettes and…
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Michaela Ronzoni
Places:
Riverside, United States of America
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1997
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In 1947, when Kurt Weill’s orchestral arrangement of Hatikva received its world premiere in New York, it was still—as it had been for decades—the anthem of the modern Zionist movement, expressing the…
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Neil W. Levin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2004
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The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century. Modernization is about everyone becoming urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually…
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Yuri Slezkine
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Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
2004
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It was, in fact, our aunt who had commissioned the bus. Madame Léa Josué Chanaan was our aunt and we called her Aunt Chanaan, just as we called her husband, Monsieur Josué Chanaan, our uncle, although…
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Armand Lunel
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Monaco-Ville, Monaco
New Haven, United States of America
Date:
1926
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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
Date:
1966
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City of Savannah
Sheftall Sheftall of the said city, being duly sworn, saith:
That some time in the latter part of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, or the beginning of…
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Sheftall Sheftall
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Savannah, United States of America
Date:
1832
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The Exodus story serves as more than a religious or moral narrative. Its influence has shaped the fundamental paradigms of Western political thought to this day.
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Michael Walzer
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Princeton, United States of America
Date:
1985
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Why did the American Jewish Congress send a group of its leaders to Cairo, Amman and Jerusalem to meet with leaders there?
The delegation, which met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan’s…
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Henry Siegman
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1985