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The women’s prayer section depicted in this painting gives a rare glimpse into the ways that women have asserted their agency and voices even in gender-segregated spaces.
Contributor:
Maurycy Gottlieb
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1878
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Chapter XIII. Judaism
The explanation is simple. People love in others the qualities they would like to have but do not actually have in any great degree; so also we hate in others only what we do not…
Contributor:
Otto Weininger
Places:
Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1903
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Although he himself would not recite “for the sake of the unification,” in keeping with the ruling of the Gaon—the Noda bi-Yehudah [R. Ezekiel Landau]—he was occasionally jealous of those who say it.…
Contributor:
Simon Sofer
Places:
Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1870
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Karl Goldmark
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1875
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The author is no novice in this area of research; however, thirty years have passed since he was last engaged deeply in the history of religion. During the ten years of his stay on the banks of the…
Contributor:
Jacob Obermeyer
Places:
Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1907
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Ira Jan
It is my task to introduce to the readers of Múlt és Jövő (Past and Future) to an extraordinary Jewish woman, and it is hard to tell whether she is a greater writer or artist. Those who say…
Contributor:
Ira Jan
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1914
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This article was published in the German-language daily Bosnische Post on December 17, 1916, in response to Jelica Belović-Bernadzikowska’s article “Die sudslavische Frau in der Politik” (The South…
Contributor:
Laura Papo
Places:
Sarajevo, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Date:
1916
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This is November
Season of mills.
Wind of the black early morning services.
Cemetery
And thousandnightliness
Of the childish little candles,
And their fear.
Trudging now
Through the…
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Franz Werfel
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Date:
1917
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Going home on airless Elbow Street,
at three o’clock in the morning.
Lead me toward goodness, my God!
Peace-flowers bloom in these gray stones
and this dawn sky is peace.
Do You love me still, my…
Contributor:
Zoltán Somlyó
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1911