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In the mid-1890s some socialist circles already existed among Jewish workers. The primary proponents of socialist democratic propaganda were first and foremost Jewish workers. In 1897, proclamations…
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David Zaslavsky
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1921
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. . . I head up the public-health service in the program to combat epidemics and also the hospital department. Besides, I also direct the medical board here in the ghetto, where over 800 doctors are…
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Israel Milejkowski
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1942
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“The living faith has vanished. . . . All that remains is poetry!” A superficial observer of life in the ghetto might come to more or less the same conclusion about the way…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
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Litzmannstadt, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
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1943
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In every caste system the lower caste occupies a marginal position vis-à-vis the upper caste. The Jews were a marginal element to the Polish nobility. The margin was not isolated, for the Jews could…
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Aleksander Hertz
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Paris, Polish People’s Republic
(Poland)
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1961
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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
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Oxford, United Kingdom
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1994
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The first Po‘ale Tsiyon group in Poltava was born out of the theoretical battle between Zionism and the journal Iskra [the organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party]. Up until 1905, [Dov Ber]…
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Yaakov Zerubavel
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1921
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•Workers
•Handicraft and small industry: guilds (tsekhn)
•Trade and industry under Aryan trustees
•Free professions…
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Oyneg Shabes Archive
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1942
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A group of people living together under extreme coercive conditions without the conscious intent of forming a community of common fate created forms that were only possible on the basis of the ghetto…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
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Litzmannstadt, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
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1943
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Sunday, November 1 [1942], it was announced in the order of the day that all policemen must assemble at twenty minutes past two in the premises of the former Slobodka Yeshive for a solemn oath-taking…
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Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1943
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The Oppressor Chmiel, may his name be blotted out, heard that many Jews had gathered in the holy community of Nemirow, and that they had a great deal of…
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Nathan Hannover
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Venice, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
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1653