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Gyula Pap
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Weimar, Weimar Republic
(Weimar, Germany)
Date:
1922
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Artist Unknown
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
Early 18th Century
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The mystery of prayer on the days of Rosh Hashanah presents itself with characteristic familiarity: it reveals itself to those who want to fulfill it, and eludes those who want only to know it.
Prayer…
Contributor:
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Places:
Berlin, Nazi Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1936
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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
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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Now, my dear friends, do you see what you’re doing? The Holy Days indulged in arrogant boasting, in envy and hatred and warfare. Hanukkah tried to fight them all and carry the day…
Contributor:
Zalman Sofer
Places:
Oldendorf, Holy Roman Empire
(Oldendorf, Germany)
Date:
1517
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, German Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1880
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Question: A woman pledged, when she lay ill, to give her disukia, which is embroidered with gilt silver thread, to be made into a ceremonial object for the synagogue. The disukia is what is called in…
Contributor:
Yair Ḥayim Bacharach
Places:
Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
Date:
1699
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For decades, my efforts have been directed at purifying the old modes [die alten Weisen]. Through [general] use and arbitrary treatment they have suffered tactless changes and distortions. I…
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Louis Lewandowski
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1882
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.
Contributor:
Menachem Birnbaum
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920