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. . . My mother sits on a low stool and her head is slumped forward on her breast and her eyes are red. Evening is nearly upon us; and the memorial candle is burning on the windowsill . . .
Papa has…
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Dvora Baron
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1911
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Iron Age II, 7th Century BCE
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Afterward, Job began to speak and cursed the day of his birth. Job spoke up and said:
Perish the day on which I was born,
And the night it was announced,
“A male has been conceived!”
May that day…
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Biblical Period
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1748
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This watercolor from the Gennadius Library’s Costume Album collection, in Athens, depicts two Jewish women—a widow (left) and a married woman (right)—in the colorful traditional attire of…
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Artist Unknown
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1574
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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Carl Alexander. Economic reforms enacted by Carl Alexander (and informed by Oppenheimer…
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Artist Unknown
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Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)
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1738
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For two months, enfolded from head to foot in crusted, freezing snow, we lay in the trenches on the Polish–Bolshevik front in White Russia. We lay about sleepily, suffering from fatigue, immobility…
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Yisroel Rabon
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Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)
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1928
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I was born and raised in Fuerth, a predominantly Protestant manufacturing city of Middle Franconia, with a large Jewish community consisting principally of artisans and tradesmen. The Jews formed…
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Jakob Wasserman
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Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Altaussee, Austria
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1921
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Mordecai walked home from the village on the path that bordered the forest. All the talk of the elders in the village chief’s house had intoxicated him more than the strongest whiskey. Under his…
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Rokhl Korn
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Przemysl, Second Polish Republic (Przemysl, Poland)
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1936
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Crowds of people had been gathering since dawn at the morgue next to the city hospital. Drowsy, shivering, in damp gray clothes, they warmed themselves by huddling in one another’s breath. Their faces…
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Yoysef Smolazh
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Warsaw, Poland
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1937