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“If God grant that the earth will be full of understanding, and everyone will speak the same language, Ashkenazic, then only (the form) Brisk will be written.” That is how Meir ben Moses Hacohen, the…
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Solomon Birnbaum
Places:
Hamburg, Weimar Republic (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1925
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The position of the Jewish woman in Germany today cannot be ascertained from understanding the present alone. A brief look at the recent and distant past—perhaps even the long-distant past—is…
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Bertha Pappenheim
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1935
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About Grzhebin on canvas, about Grzhebin in the flesh.Since the letter is written in a penitent mood, the trademark of the Grzhebin Publishing House is affixed. Here too are several…
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Viktor Shklovsky
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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[ . . . ] The Judaism into which Heine was born and with which he had to come to terms as a maturing man was the Judaism of the German reform. This was, to be sure, no longer the reform, creative in…
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Leo Löwenthal
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
Late 1920s
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Today in Germany it seems Jewish assimilation must declare its bankruptcy. The general social antisemitism and its official legitimation affects in the first instance assimilated Jews, who can no…
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Hannah Arendt
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1933
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During the thousands of years of its history, Judaism has learned and experienced a good deal. In its people the commanding urge to think further, to struggle with ideas, has…
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Leo Baeck
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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Max Liebermann
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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Gyula Pap
Places:
Weimar, Weimar Republic (Weimar, Germany)
Date:
1922
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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 am a stranger.
Since no one dares approach me
I would be girded with towers
That wear their steep and stone-gray caps
Aloft in clouds.
The brazen key you will not find
That locks the musty…
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Gertrud Kolmar
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932