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It was not without hesitation that I accepted the kind invitation extended to me to deliver the Zunz Lecture of this year. Greatly as I appreciated the honor conferred upon me, I did not find it an…
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Louis Ginzberg
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1920
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[ . . . ] Not only did Jews not have anything to do, even remotely, with oppositional circles expressing discontent with the…
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Lev Deutsch (Deich)
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1924
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Much has been written concerning the pogroms of Jews in the Ukraine in 1918–21. Countless reports of the atrocities perpetrated by the bandits in various cities and towns were published in the Jewish…
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Nahum Gergel
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928
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Linguistic folklore in literature is a component of realistic style. At first, new or renewed literature is usually realistic. The same reasons that introduce…
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Meir Viner
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1928
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women did not participate in the free professions regularly because at that time institutes of higher education had not yet opened their doors to them. The…
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Pinchas Kon
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1929
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A letter from Zuckerman, the commissioner, evidently written by an agitated hand. It had come from Brest Litovsk bringing the news of horror. He had been in Pinsk and…
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Boris D. Bogen
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Los Angeles, United States of America
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1930
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[ . . . ] After the intractable insolence shown by Süss when his sentence was pronounced, he was fettered cross-wise in the Chamber of Nobles, where he was to be confined until execution, and kept…
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Lion Feuchtwanger
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
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1925
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. . . I head up the public-health service in the program to combat epidemics and also the hospital department. Besides, I also direct the medical board here in the ghetto, where over 800 doctors are…
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Israel Milejkowski
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1942
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A people that forgets its dead is condemned to decay—Jules Guesde
We will never forget our dead. They still live among us and in our thoughts.
For that reason, immediately after the Liberation, we…
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Dovid Diamant
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1946
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Among the illegal publications that appeared in Poland during the Nazi occupation, one can find a small anthology of poems entitled Z otchlani, from the Abyss. This modest volume, published by the…
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Michal Borwicz
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Kraków, Republic of Poland
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1947