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German Jewry proved itself to be one of the most deeply characteristic and in every important respect fundamental representatives of the West, proving its mettle as partner in its two-thousand-year…
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Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
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Zurich, Switzerland
Date:
1957
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I was born in Tunisia, in Tunis, a few steps from that city’s large ghetto. My father, a harness maker, was somewhat pious, naturally somewhat so, as were all men of his trade and his station in life…
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Albert Memmi
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Paris, France
Date:
1962
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Some two years ago Nata had been deported from Warsaw to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Now she was free, but still unable to come to grips with life, so newly regained, though in the first breath…
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Mina Tomkiewicz
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1955
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There is a matter well known and widely publicized among all those who have come through the gates of our city, Constantinople [Istanbul], may God preserve it. . . . [I]t occurred about two years…
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Isaac Akrish
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1858
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The means of making the Jews happy and useful? Here it is: stop making them unhappy and unuseful. Accord them, or rather return to them the right of citizens, which you have denied them, against all…
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Zalkind Hourwitz
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1789
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How, I ask you, could we have continued to be a nation until the present, and how could we have been able to walk such a great distance along the path of history without losing our unity or having our…
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Solomon Judah Rapoport
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Prag, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1845
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Judaism’s approach to history is shaped by the fact that unlike other religions, it locates perfection not at the beginning but at the end of history. This, surely, is the…
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Elijah Benamozegh
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Livorno, Kingdom of Italy (Livorno, Italy)
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1863
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In every caste system the lower caste occupies a marginal position vis-à-vis the upper caste. The Jews were a marginal element to the Polish nobility. The margin was not isolated, for the Jews could…
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Aleksander Hertz
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1961
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Why do I begin with the parachutists? Were I to trace the story of Jewish resistance and rescue chronologically, I would have to use a different order. I would have to begin with the gradual…
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Marie Syrkin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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Perhaps the most difficult question we have been asked in the course of compiling this catalog has been, “What exactly is it?” Having realized quite early that there are no preexisting…
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The Jewish Catalog
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1973