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It was not without hesitation that I accepted the kind invitation extended to me to deliver the Zunz Lecture of this year. Greatly as I appreciated the honor conferred upon me, I did not find it an…
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Louis Ginzberg
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1920
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Gentlemen of the jury, we have been in public life for twenty-seven years. We have been hauled into court, in and out of season—we have never denied our position. Even the police know that Emma…
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Emma Goldman
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New York, United States of America
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1917
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I would like to say that this meeting is a meeting of the members of the Executive Committee and of the Advisory Council of the Kehillah. It is not a meeting that is open to the public or to the press…
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Judah L. Magnes
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New York, United States of America
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1914
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To all Commissioners of Immigration and Immigrant Inspectors in charge: It is hereby directed that, with a view to promptly obtaining definite information with regard to alien Anarchists and criminals…
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Oscar Straus
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Washington, United States of America
New York, United States
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1908
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It is my pleasant duty, as chairman of the local committee, to extend to you all a hearty welcome to our city and to our Congress, the first Jewish Women’s Congress. It was with some misgiving that I…
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Hannah Solomon
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Chicago, United States of America
Philadelphia, United States
Date:
1893
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This is perhaps the grimmest, and surely the holiest task we have faced since D-Day. Here before us lie the bodies of…
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Roland Gittelsohn
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(Iwo Jima, Japan)
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1945
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That Leo Frank was lynched primarily because he was a Jew has been asserted by the most serious, and best informed newspapers all over the country. A newspaper like the local Evening Post went so far…
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Abraham Liessin
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Cincinnati, United States of America
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1915
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23 Tevet 5643, to the Publisher [Peretz Smolenskin]!The trials and tribulations that afflicted us in the land of our…
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Am Oylom
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1882
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Marx was a prophet, no less so than Isaiah, Jeremiah, or Ezekiel. With honest conviction and courage he proclaimed the economic liberation of humanity. He appealed to the workers of the world and…
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Abraham Shiplacoff
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New York, United States of America
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1910s
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There is no room for Ghetto Judaism in America. Look at any of the creeds and churches in our free land! They are all more tolerant, more liberal, more humane and sympathetic in their mutual relations…
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Kaufmann Kohler
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New York, United States of America
Cincinnati, United States
Date:
1911