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Not seldom, when in conversation my partner draws me into a plural—that is, as soon as he includes my person in whatever connection and says to me: “We Jews . . .”—I feel a not exactly tormenting, but…
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Jean Améry
Places:
Munich, West Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1966
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“You found the victim?”
She nodded.
“Was she conscious at the time?”
“Yes. Baruch Hashem.”
“Pardon?”
“Nothing. Mrs. Adler was conscious.”
“That’s fine,” Decker said. He faced the uniforms. “Cordon off…
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Faye Kellerman
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1986
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He strolled along the bank of the Vistula, thinking, “Today she will come.”
And so thinking, he saw it all in the most vivid colors: He is sitting on the bed in his room, in the darkness, waiting…
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Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1903
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This medal for St. Stephanskirche in Vienna provides an example of the style innovated by its engraver Jacques Wiener (1815–1899), in which the exterior of a building appears on one side and the…
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Jacques Wiener
Places:
Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium
(Brussels, Belgium)
Date:
1862
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Older people still remember it. Younger people know about it from reading our classic writers of the older generation: how Jews once gave much thought to naming a child, long before it was born and…
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Moyshe Altman
Date:
1968
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What is the place of the idolatry that is reflected in the Bible?
This idolatry is not a representation perverted for the sake of polemic; nor is it an artificial…
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Yehezkel Kaufmann
Places:
Atlanta, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1951
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Israel Rabinovitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1990
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We have not had in Mosul—unlike our unfortunate coreligionists in Baghdad much to suffer from the fanatic and reactionary movement among the Muslims in recent days. The delegates of the Committee of…
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Maurice Sidi
Places:
Mosul, Ottoman Empire
(Mosul, Iraq)
Date:
1908
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T.J.:Why don’t you get the lead out of your can and do something for once?
Coney [to Finch]:You finish your map.
Finch:It’s finished, Coney.
Coney:Well, let T. J. Rockefeller do something besides…
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Arthur Laurents
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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[ . . . ] [A]n attempt will be made to present the history of the Jews of the African Maghreb, a large, well-defined diaspora which in some respects is different from other Jewish groups generally and…
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Ḥaim Zeev Hirschberg
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1965