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It is possible, it is very possible, that here it is impossible to live, but here we must remain, here we must die, sleep…there is no other place…
—Y. H. Brenner
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Gershon Shaked
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1983
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Successive, often polemic interpretations, citations in a context of sacred doctrine or of political-historical opportunity, construe, around the archaic, cardinal words in the Hebrew canon, a…
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George Steiner
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Saratoga Springs, United States of America
(Geneva, Switzerland)
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1985
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These program notes were prepared for the Radical New Jewish music performances which were part of the ART PROJEKT Festival held in Munich in September of 1992.
American New Music has always been…
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John Zorn, Marc Ribot
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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I—a Jewess—am by definition not a member of the species, or: why should a Jewess not have problems with public assistance and with her children? The postwar German Jew, to the extent that such a being…
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Esther Dischereit
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New York, United States of America
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1994
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History will record that as the twentieth century drew to a close, American Jews were facing a political crisis unprecedented in its scope and nature. For the first time in their three and a half…
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J. J. Goldberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1996
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Why now? Why write about anti-Semitism in the Women’s Movement when we have the Moral Majority and Ronald Reagan to worry about?Because, very simply, it’s there. And because I am a Jew who has been…
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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This happened in the city of Madrid late at night, at the hour when nobody was in the streets, when all people were in bed resting from the exhaustion of the previous day. Suddenly, there was a knock…
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Unknown
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Turnu-Severin, Kingdom of Romania
(Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania)
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1885
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Four weeks before the completion of the new twelve-story addition the store advertised for two hundred experienced saleswomen. Rachel Wiletzky, entering the superintendent’s office after a wait of…
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Edna Ferber
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1918
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Samuel Hirszenberg
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Lodz, Russian Empire
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1899
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The newest stream of Jewish immigration, driven to these shores by the waves of the Russian Revolution, and its counterpart, the atrocious massacres of Jews, has brought in its wake an undercurrent of…
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Jacob Milch
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1906