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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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1653
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[1742] In the week when we read the portion Toledoth of the Pentateuch a proclamation was issued by the…
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Abraham Ḥayim Braatbard
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1742–1745
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The houses and rooms of the inhabitants of this most famous city are one or the other of two extremes: the good ones are sumptuous houses at the height of perfection and…
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Moses Almosnino
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1567
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In 1913 a Jewish girls’ school in Vilna called Yehudiyah, which provided supplementary education for girls aged seven to eighteen, published a publicity pamphlet in Yiddish…
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Paula Hyman
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New York, United States of America
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1995
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What can we do to ensure that Holocaust memory not only views male suffering but also recognizes women’s special and separate agony?
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Joan Miriam Ringelheim
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Washington, United States of America
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1984
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Theology teaches us that when God the Eternal formed man He gave him an extra rib. This rib was destined for the formation of woman in order that this creature, who was to become the rich…
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Elissa Lisbonne
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Avignon, Second French Empire (Avignon, France)
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1865
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“Hey, hey, out of my way!” shouted a driver from the seat of his coach as he nearly ran into two women standing in the middle of the busiest street in Glupsk, both carrying…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Žitómir, Russian Empire (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
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1878
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In our first series of discussions, we explored the struggle between the government and the Jews, which was initiated by the former and ended with its triumph over the latter; in the second…
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Mikhail Morgulis
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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ca. 1863
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The time has come for me to touch upon the people of the Vilna leadership. When Iosif Mil was away and I joined it, the acknowledged leader was my acquaintance A[rkady] Kremer (“Aleksandr”). His…
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Julius Martov
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1922
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[ . . . ] Not only did Jews not have anything to do, even remotely, with oppositional circles expressing discontent with the…
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Lev Deutsch (Deich)
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1924