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Paris, Tuesday, May 25, 1926, half past three in the afternoon. The car in which I had suddenly found myself honked and barely managed to drive through the dense throng, with people…
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Sholem Schwartzbard
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Berchères La Maingot, French Third Republic (Berchères-la-Maingot, France)
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1933
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The situation of Jews in the Soviet Union may well be the greatest of all the great wonders of the world. The history of Jews in tsarist Russia has been centuries of darkness…
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David Pinski
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New York City, United States of America
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1938
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To define the characteristics of antisemitism it is good to proceed on two fronts: i.e., to examine its development externally in a purely empirical manner and thereby find its…
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Felix Weltsch
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Prague, Czechoslovak Republic (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1931
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For a half-millennium the Jew, rejected by the world, had secluded himself within ghetto walls, unconcerned with what lay without. But the day came when the world…
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Milton Steinberg
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New York City, United States of America
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1934
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It was taken on Saturday, March 20, 1937, in the town of Swienciany, which lies on the Polish border with Lithuania approximately 50 miles northeast of Vilna. Nine girls and two boys, together with…
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Avner Holtzman
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2002
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Confronted by difficult problems after 1945 (reconstruction of a community life after the physical and material losses of the Second World War, integration of successive and ever more numerous waves…
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Nelly Gutman
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Paris, France
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1984
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Any public Jewish institution that is inextricably tied to the greater Jewish community can only express its deep sorrow as it looks back over the past year. Hundreds of thousands of our brethren, the…
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Fülöp Grünwald
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Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (Budapest, Hungary)
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1943
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When Vichy agreed to collaborate with the Germans, their decision to do so shocked many Jews living in France, particularly those who had recently arrived. Despite the Dreyfus Affair at the turn of…
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Judith Friedlander
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New York, United States of America
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1995
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Warsaw, 15 December 1861
Mr. Medard’s reply to our letter dated 15 November has not, in the least, surprised us; we had indeed expected it, exactly in the form in which it is composed…
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Al. K.
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)
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1862
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7 September 1787
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With leave and submission I address myself to those in whom there is wisdom and understanding and knowledge, they are the honourable personages appointed and Made overseers of a…
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Jonas Phillips
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1787