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Osher Margolis was one of a handful of Soviet professional historians of Jewry. Like the others, he brought a Marxist perspective to his work. The work below, though focused on the nineteenth…
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Osher Margolis
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1930
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This work, which I here make public, answers a scholarly need that became evident to me twenty-five years ago, when I was still a young student writing my first book, The Beginning…
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Yitshak (Ignacy) Schiper
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1930
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After long deliberation, I concluded that we would be making a grave mistake if we did not participate in the upcoming kehilah electio…
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Henryk Erlich
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1924
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Larry Rivers
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1965
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Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, was appointed to rule the short-lived Kingdom of Westphalia, which Napoleon established in Northern Germany. This medal celebrates his grant of emancipation to…
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1808
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In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I issued a statute that effectively made Russian Jews liable to military service, as part of a policy that sought to transform the Jewish population into integrated subjects who…
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Artist Unknown
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Shkudy, Russian Empire
(Skuodas, Lithuania)
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1864–1867
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I was honored to receive your request to express my opinion on the current question of electing women to the Jewish representative assembly…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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1919
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Friends of my age,
My happy generation,
We strode, pained-pleased,
Through the wreckage of whole worlds.
Before the living and the dead
fell on our portion
Inherited old skins
of ourselves—and…
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Aharon Kushnirov
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1931
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The meaning of the Jewish revolution is contained in one word—independence! Independence for the Jewish people in its homeland! Dependence is not merely political or economic; it is also moral…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Haifa, Mandate Palestine
(Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1944
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Stalinstan,
Stalinstan,
Who is present and on hand
From the Party,
From the Union?
Who was on his way
Somewhere else today,
When a chain of men caught him
And then brought him
To…
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Izi Charik
Date:
1934