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My grandfather’s kinsman, a Jew who tamed bears,
Performed in the market towns;
By day his beast was confined in chains;
At night, they danced under the stars.
Nicknamed “Ten Commandments,” the man…
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Moyshe Kulbak
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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I sometimes dream that I’m a prisoner. For days, years. I’m only free at night, for a few hours toward morning. During those hours I can walk around. But I don’t know where to go. All the people I…
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Barbara Honigmann
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Strasbourg, France
Date:
1996
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I was sent to school at Iwenez, about fifteen miles from our abode, and here I began to study Talmud. The study of the Talmud is the chief object of a learned education among our people. Riches…
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Solomon Maimon
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1792–1793
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“Well, as you know already, the story is about Esterka, the daughter of the Jew to whom this house belongs. She was ten years old when he came here, and tall of her age, with black hair and large blue…
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Karl Emil Franzos
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Stuttgart, German Empire (Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1873
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It is a not a simple cookbook that I am presenting herewith to my sisters in faith, although most room is given to the “kitchen.” This book of Cooking and Home Economics [Koch- und…
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Flora Wolff
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1888
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The house known today as the House of the Sun is a large stone structure next to the synagogue. But long, long ago it was called the Devil’s Head, and it was…
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Yuspa Shamash
Places:
Worms, Free Imperial City of Worms (Worms, Germany)
Date:
1696
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Question: Whether in those marriages contracted under civil marriage law—without betrothal according to the rite of Moses and Israel—the woman can leave without a get [Jewish religious writ of divorce…
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David Tsvi Hoffmann
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1899
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He married Sonechka early, out of love. He loved her passionately only for the first two years. Then he lost interest but didn’t even notice it. He wasn’t thinking about love and women as a rule. He…
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Semyon Yushkevich
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922