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Aaron:
It’s all a plain lie. It’s because our Jews throughout the land in the little villages are so primitive, so stupid, they can’t even read. Anyone will tell them the most absurd things and they…
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Israel Aksenfeld
Places:
Leipzig, Kingdom of Prussia
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
Mid-19th Century
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When an intimidated individual or a careerist among my brethren feels inclined or forced to identify himself as a son of his forefathers, then he usually describes himself—provided he was not baptized…
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Albert Einstein
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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I want to profess straight off that I am a Jew. Does it require justification if I write in a spirit other than that of defending the Jews? Many of my fellow tribesmen know themselves only as Germans…
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Walter Rathenau
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1897
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We want to scrape off the eggshells of the ghetto and live as children of the present in the midst of German intellectual life, but without breaking with our past and shaking off the legitimate…
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Eugen Fuchs
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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We received the following appeal addressed to the German citizens of Jewish faith with the request to publish it:
For the past two decades, a movement has disquieted our fatherland whose ultimate…
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Central Union of the German Citizens of the Jewish Faith
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1893