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Whatever happened to me on that day seemed to urge me to muster up all my courage and hope. When the ship approached the harbor of Jaffa, many people were there to meet us…
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Berl Katznelson
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1941
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The voices of thousands of people floated to us on the quay. They were singing “Hatikvah,” the Hebrew hymn of hope. It was the song the Jews sang at every emergency and in every crisis. It was their…
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Ruth Gruber
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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When the Seven Years War broke out in 1756, I was the father of four children, and the cost of living was high. I had tried to make my way in the world like an honourable man. When the enemy Prussians…
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Aaron Isaac
Places:
Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1801–1802
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The author had a tradition from his ancestors, also based on a book of his genealogy that was lost in all the upheavals of the expulsion and the persecutions, that this holy and lofty family, whose…
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Barukh Uziel Hazaketto
Places:
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1550
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I am humbled by this nomination and so grateful to Al Gore for choosing me. And I want you to know tonight that I will work my heart out to make Al Gore the next president of the United States.
As I…
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Joseph Lieberman
Places:
Stamford, United States of America
Date:
2000
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I. Of Pimps, Prostitutes, and Other SeducersWe saw some ten richly-dressed women, accompanied by fat-bellied men in top hats, standing at the green metal gate of the immigrants’ hotel. Through the…
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Mordechai Alpersohn
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1922
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The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in…
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Menaḥem Man Amelander
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1743
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How good and agreeable is it, when brothers live in one house, and how much more father and son
Peace to my beloved, dear and darling son, whose soul is bound to my soul, the intimate friend, the…
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Eliezer Morawczyk
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Tymbarg, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Tymbark, Poland)
Date:
1588
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When it came time for me to start school, my mother went to the director of the Wilhelm Pieck School in Katowice, Poland, where we were living then, to register me. My sister, nine years my senior…
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Henryk M. Broder
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(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1979
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[ . . . ] In the summer of 1903 I traveled to Russia, where I was to meet with the heads of the socialist revolutionary groups in various cities in south Russia and on the Volga…
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Menahem Mendel Rosenbaum
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1921–1924