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For fifty years, Jews of the West were protected by the shield of Nazism. As Bernanos wrote, Hitler had given antisemitism a bad name.We supposed this bad name to be permanent. Yet it…
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Alain Finkielkraut
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Paris, France
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2004
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Mr. Finkelstein was still a young man, but as a Jew he was very old. He knew what was going on. He could hardly help knowing. Twice in the past three weeks, when he had come out of his house at six in…
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Arthur Miller
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New York, United States of America
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1945
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I speak to you as an American Jew.
As Americans we share the profound concern of millions of people about the shame and disgrace of inequality and injustice which make a mockery of the great American…
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Joachim Prinz
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Washington, United States of America
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1963
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In twelfth grade I am at the height of my power as a young woman. I am experienced. I am loved. I am excelling in my classes. I am president of my school and lead all school meetings in the gym every…
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Rebecca Walker
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2000
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Reproaches, condemnations, indictments by other nations—the plot is clear. It leads to the public humiliation, the forced isolation of a people whose suffering is the oldest in the world.
Arrests…
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Elie Wiesel
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1975
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I leaf through the commemorative albums of the settlements of Ri’shon Le-tsion, Reḥovot, Petaḥ-Tikvah, and Ḥadera. Among other things I was looking for documentary material on the establishment of the…
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Yehuda Nini
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1971
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I felt a common cause with these good men and women who had been moved to mid-wife freedom in the south, but the gulf that separated us is also wide. Their spirit of confession…
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Betty Alschuler
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1962
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Blessed and powerful God, eternally [ . . . ] universal ruler, Lord of Hosts; we have come to beg of you and pray for the safety of the state, as you ordered us through your prophet: “Seek the welfare…
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David Hisquiau Baruch Louzada
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Jodensavanne, Dutch Colonial Empire (Joden Savanna, Suriname)
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ca. 1790
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That Leo Frank was lynched primarily because he was a Jew has been asserted by the most serious, and best informed newspapers all over the country. A newspaper like the local Evening Post went so far…
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Abraham Liessin
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Cincinnati, United States of America
Date:
1915
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Thenjiwe:What place is this?
Zachariah:John Vorster Square!
Thenjiwe:Aaaah!
Susan:They told me that they were going to charge me. That meant a lot of things. That I would be sent to Diepkloof to await…
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Barney Simon
Places:
Johannesburg, South Africa
Date:
1985