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In 1840, thirteen leaders of the Jewish community in Damascus were arrested and imprisoned because of an accusation of ritual murder. Appeals from the local Jewish community reached Jewish communities…
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Artist Unknown
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1840
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This caricature by the Henschel brothers celebrates the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in December 1813. This battle, the final in Napoleon’s “German Campaign,” is also known as the…
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Gebrüder Henschel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1813
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Exploring Jewish acculturation in the face of modernity, this painting is considered the first work of a prominent Jewish artist to explore a contemporary Jewish issue. The young soldier in the…
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1833–1834
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All philosophy—understood in the widest sense as awe before and research into the inexplicable secrets and the inner coherence of the world—is meaningful not for the sake of knowledge but as a form of…
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Hans Kohn
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1913
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These last words—spoken in all seriousness—completely confused Heinz. He thought he hadn’t heard right.
“Sorry—What do you have?”
“Patrol duty—Jacob can take care of the money now; you’ve seen that…
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Sammy Gronemann
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1918
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To thee I come, O long-abandoned god
Of early moons and unremembered days,
To thee whose reign was in a greener world
Among a race of men divine with youth,
Strong generations of the sons of earth:
T…
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Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Heidelberg, German Empire (Heidelberg, Germany)
Date:
1899
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Two years ago, during a committee meeting at the Congress in Basle, I said: “We must think of creating once again a Jewry of muscles.”
Once again! For history is our witness that such a Jewry had…
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Max Nordau
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1903
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This book consists of a descriptive account and twenty stories. The descriptive account speaks of the life of the Hasidim, a Jewish sect of eastern Europe which arose around the middle of…
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Martin Buber
Places:
Ravenna, German Empire (Germany)
Date:
1907
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911
Dear Mrs. N.,
I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…
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Bertha Pappenheim
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1911
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The philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896) was the leading benefactor of world Jewry in his time. He established the Baron de Hirsch Fund to assist immigrants to the United States and…
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Artist Unknown
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German Empire (Germany, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1910