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Father had been able to save a little from his earnings and felt that it would last till the end of the war—but he used that money to buy back those prayers shawls! So now we were penniless.
Father…
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Yehudah Yaari
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London, Canada
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1932
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Since the song of victory is silent
About the man now overcome.
I will serve as Hector’s witness.
There once was a Germany, we all know it, that belonged to the world, and that was received by the…
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Leo Baeck
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1946
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No, Moshe was not a serious Jewish boy. He was not committed to the history of the Jewish people. If he were asked to locate Tel Aviv on a map of Israel, I am not sure that Moshe could have done it.
I…
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Adam Thirlwell
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
2003
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Looking back, we readily recognize how many illusions were inherent in Jewish ideologies.
The Assimilationists idealized emancipation. Some of them became German…
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Robert Weltsch
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1956
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This disunity among us, the lack of piousness for one another, the civil war of murmurings in places where conversations and visits occur, evils that have caused the past and…
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Jacob de Castro Sarmento
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1723
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The Breavmans founded and presided over most of the institutions which make the Montreal Jewish community one of the most powerful in the world today.
The joke around the city is: The Jews are the…
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Leonard Cohen
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London, United Kingdom
(Hydra, Greece)
Date:
1963
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Lights up on Judith.The rest of the company have their backs to the audience. They are dressed in 1940s costumes. She is dressed in today’s casual clothes.Judith:I was in Germany and they went on…
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Julia Pascal
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1990
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I have always backed off from the word.
In the Thirties Europe meant French. But was it only then? Not in earlier centuries? A bloody lesson learned that Europe was Balmazújváros as well as Notre…
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Ottó Orbán
Places:
Manchester, United Kingdom
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1978
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How many Jews are there in Poland? This seems a simple and reasonable question, but the answer depends to a great degree on who is asking whom, when, and why. This should not be surprising: in Poland…
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Konstanty Gebert
Places:
Oxford, United Kingdom
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1994