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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, Nokhum Borukh Minkov
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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That the image of these United States as a “meltingpot” might be a delusion and its imputed harmony with democracy a snare was not an idea which, prior to the Great War, seemed even possible to…
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Horace M. Kallen
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1924
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We see that the process of growing human freedom has the same dialectic character that we have noticed in the process of individual growth. On the one hand it is a process of growing strength and…
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Erich Fromm
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1941
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That self-hatred is present among Jews is a fact that the non-Jew would hardly believe, but which is well known among the Jews themselves. It is a phenomenon which has been observed ever since the…
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Kurt Lewin
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Iowa City, United States of America
Date:
1941
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Do you think there is a Jewish problem? If yes, in what sense? Do you care about it?
Have you had any experience with Jews? What kind? Do you remember names of persons involved and other specific data…
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Theodor Adorno
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1950
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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
Date:
1963
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At 1:35 on the morning of May 9, 1986, a bomb exploded in Amiti Pilowsky’s bedroom window in Santiago, Chile. No one was hurt, although the bomb destroyed a car in the driveway, severely damaged a…
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Tina Rosenberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1987
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Jews are associated with liberalism the way the French are with wine: it is considered native to their region. […] As I use it, liberalism is a belief in…
Contributor:
Ruth R. Wisse
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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These program notes were prepared for the Radical New Jewish music performances which were part of the ART PROJEKT Festival held in Munich in September of 1992.American New Music has always been noted…
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John Zorn, Marc Ribot
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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As we look around us in contemporary America, we see large numbers of “Jews” or persons of Jewish origin (many of whom shed their recognizably Jewish names) in such areas as law, medicine…
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Benjamin Harshav
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1993