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Here, then, an effort was mounted by the United States and its allies to hold the line against any further advances by the Soviet Union, whether operating on its own through military invasion or…
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Norman Podhoretz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1979
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It was, in fact, our aunt who had commissioned the bus. Madame Léa Josué Chanaan was our aunt and we called her Aunt Chanaan, just as we called her husband, Monsieur Josué Chanaan, our uncle, although…
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Armand Lunel
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Monaco-Ville, Monaco
New Haven, United States of America
Date:
1926
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A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…
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Simon Gelberg
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(London, United Kingdom)
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1901
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This morning I met Vaclav on the street.
“God himself has arranged our meeting,” he continued after the usual greetings and inquiries about health. “Walking here, I thought of you.”
“Might I be able…
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Lev Levanda
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1871–1873
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There are contradictions and ambivalences in our celebrating Thanksgiving. We are recent Americans. It wasn’t the Mayflower that brought our people over here. We know too much about what the coming of…
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Anne Roiphe
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1981
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America has, in less than one generation, become the second largest center of the Jewish Diaspora, and bids fair to become the first, instead of the second, within another generation. No other country…
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Israel Friedländer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1915
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I have a lovely period photo, sepia coloured, with all the characters in a row, and their gentle trusting faces, photograph faces that nobody ever looks at now. They are the shifbrider, the ship…
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Margo Glantz
Places:
Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1981