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When bloodletting is done at the right time, and when there is need for it, it promotes the health of the person, as I shall write about, God willing. When bloodletting is…
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Issachar Baer Teller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1655
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Some time ago I came here to the holy congregation of Amsterdam and I visited the schools of the Sephardim a number of times. There I saw “giants [in scholarship]: tender children as small as…
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Shabbetai Meshorer Bass
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1680
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De Vriendt shut the door, but stayed with his forehead pressed against it; the strength had gone out of him. This Englishman knew. He knew the nature of his relation to…
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Arnold Zweig
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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At her meeting with the associate dean, Edith Margareten asked the administrator, a woman in her mid-40s, about the climate for Jews at Notre Dame. “Oh, it’s fine,” she said. “I’m Methodist myself.”
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Robin Hemley
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1996
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Friendship
It isn’t as easy as they say
Making friends right away,
I went down to the playground today,
To sit alone while others play.
The girls were having lots of fun,
Playing hopscotch and…
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Tirtsa Atar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1976
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How is a song born?
Like a baby.
At first it hurts
But then, it comes out
And everyone is happy
And suddenly—
How wonderful!
It’s walking
All on its own.
How is a song born?
Like…
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Yehonatan Geffen
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
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The range of my movement between “here” and “there” was supported by imagination and sustained by difference. In going to a women’s seminary, I remained…
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Tamar El-Or
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1998
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That self-hatred is present among Jews is a fact that the non-Jew would hardly believe, but which is well known among the Jews themselves. It is a phenomenon which has been observed ever since the…
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Kurt Lewin
Places:
Iowa City, United States of America
Date:
1941
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I remember hearing the word pinkes several times when I was a small child.
For instance, when an unusual event took place in town…
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Leybl Shiter
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1951