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Be it known that there was a man in Stuttgart in the state of Württemberg, who became ever greater in the stubbornness of his heart and his pride, in his wealth and his wisdom, and he was called…
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Salomon Schechter
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1738
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I think I have fully grasped usque ad ultimas differentias the meaning of the Company, its shares, its principles, its reputation, its splendor, its initiation, its progress, its…
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Joseph Penso de la Vega
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1688
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Ornate silver amulet. The Hebrew word Shaddai—another name for God—is etched in the center. Italy, ca. 1750.
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1750
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We eat to live. The world is one vast dining room, in which each living thing both consumes and is consumed, in infinite cycles. Everything alive is a potential foodstuff. Big…
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Aviad Kleinberg
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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2005
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[ . . . ] [T]here was a lecture in the big union hall on the topic of Soviet food policy. The wife of our protagonist also wanted to go and listen. You didn’t…
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Abraham J. Zhitnik
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1925
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Paul Goldman
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Herzliya, Israel
Date:
1957
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At the Realschule fathers and mothers were lined up in single file in the director’s room. Parents who took the occasion very seriously appeared in couples with their young hopefuls. The director…
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Lajos Hatvany
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1927
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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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Yitzhak Klein gave such an angry kick to the garbage can that it flew straight into the middle of the sidewalk, scattering its stinking contents in all directions. Klein nearly exploded in his boiling…
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Ephraim Kishon
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1954
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You who live secure
In your warm houses
Who return at evening to find
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider whether this is a man,
Who labours in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a crust…
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Primo Levi
Places:
Turin, Italy
Date:
1946