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On the day of Walter Rathenau’s funeral in 1922, all mail and telephone service in Germany was suspended between 2:00 and 2:10 pm
“If he won’t honor our invoice, I’ll simply give him a buzz. Put the…
Contributor:
Kurt Tucholsky
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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Jankel Adler
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1931
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In these days when Jews are being killed in Palestine, I chose to go to Grenadierstrasse—not to Jerusalem. I had the feeling it was better to be with the bereaved than the dead. I paid a condolence…
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Joseph Roth
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1929
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1. We have now obtained a preliminary articulation of reason and religion; we turn now to the sources of Judaism, out of which the religion of reason should be derived. We ought…
Contributor:
Hermann Cohen
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Marburg, Weimar Republic (Marburg an der Lahn, Germany)
Date:
1919
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Ludwig Meidner
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1919
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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
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Henryk Berlewi
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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David Heinz Gumbel
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Heilbronn, Weimar Republic (Heilbronn, Germany)
Date:
1930–1939
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Citizen Voli Brener
A Moscow snowy morning, sun-streaked and dry. When it falls on a Sunday, the morning shines with a thousand Moscow sparkles—rejuvenating white lights that charm and shimmer, as if…
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David Bergelson
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928
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The night draws in around my eyes
Its ring of haze.
My pulse has sent my blood into a blaze
Though all about me a gray coldness lies.
O God, that I by living day
Should dream I’m dead,
Drink it in…
Contributor:
Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920