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This happened in the city of Madrid late at night, at the hour when nobody was in the streets, when all people were in bed resting from the exhaustion of the previous day. Suddenly, there was a knock…
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Unknown
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Turnu-Severin, Kingdom of Romania
(Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania)
Date:
1885
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He then returned to his city, filled with bitterness, humiliated, oppressed, and weak. He found his wife Ḥaya—who had been a picture of robust health and womanly valor when he had set out on his…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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1900
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We were too late. The pogrom erupted that very night, suddenly, like an exploding mine, and in my own neighborhood.
The first screams came to me confused, in a hazy dream. Then it dawned on me what…
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Lamed Shapiro
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New York, United States of America
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1909
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Four weeks before the completion of the new twelve-story addition the store advertised for two hundred experienced saleswomen. Rachel Wiletzky, entering the superintendent’s office after a wait of…
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Edna Ferber
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New York, United States of America
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1918
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Samuel Hirszenberg
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Lodz, Russian Empire
(Lodz, Poland)
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1899
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On the third August 1889 I departed from London for South Africa on the steamship Drummond Castle. There were two hundred passengers comprising British, Hollanders, Germans and eleven Jews. We Jews…
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Nehemiah Dov Hoffman
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Cape Town, South Africa
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1916
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The newest stream of Jewish immigration, driven to these shores by the waves of the Russian Revolution, and its counterpart, the atrocious massacres of Jews, has brought in its wake an undercurrent of…
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Jacob Milch
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New York, United States of America
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1906
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One hundred and odd years ago, the walls that imprisoned us Jews in a mental ghetto fell, torn down by Christian advocates of human rights who are assured of our eternal gratitude. After having been…
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Moritz Goldstein
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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The degradation took place Saturday, the 5th of January. I underwent the horrible torture without weakness.
Before the ceremony, I waited for an hour in the hall of the garrison…
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Alfred Dreyfus
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1895
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One afternoon a friend from class asked me a religious question. After I answered her, she remarked that it was curious that our teacher had not been able to answer the same question. “Don’t be so…
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Reina ha-Kohen
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1908