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Change has been so rapid, in fact, that American Jews in their twenties and thirties inhabit a completely different world from that in which their parents grew up.
The essence of the change is that…
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Charles E. Silberman
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New York, United States of America
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1985
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Everyone appreciated the importance of the work that was being done. They understood how important it was for future generations that a record remain of the tragedy of Polish Jewry. Some realized that…
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Emanuel Ringelblum
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1943
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5703—Because of its horrors, all the preceding years of Hitler will pale in people’s memory, even 5677 [1917] and 5665 [1905], and even 5408 [1648] and 5252 [1492]. In none of these peak years of the…
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Zalman Shazar
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1943
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Since the song of victory is silent
About the man now overcome.
I will serve as Hector’s witness.
There once was a Germany, we all know it, that belonged to the world, and that was received by the…
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Leo Baeck
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London, United Kingdom
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1946
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Isaac David Knafo
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1939
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Antisemitism is not an Argentine disgrace; we did not invent it. Other countries preceded us. Not even the far-right Tacuara Nationalist Movement of the 1960s invented it. Before that, there was the…
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Samuel Tarnopolsky
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1969
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At this moment in world history anti-Semitism is not manifesting itself with the full and violent destructiveness of which we know it to be capable. Even a social disease has its periods of quiescence…
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Max Horkheimer, Samuel H. Flowerman
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New York, United States of America
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1950
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South African Jews are forever conscious of injustice, but of the injustice that they alone are made to suffer. They quickly grow furious over the treatment of Israel, the power politics…
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Ronald Segal, Dan Jacobson
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New York City, United States of America
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1957
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Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of free citizens, we now (with a deep sense of gratitude to the Almighty disposer of all events) behold a government erected by the Majesty…
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Moses Seixas
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Newport, United States of America
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1790
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The great controversy in Bohemia surrounding the language legislation shows Austrian Jews in a strange position. They go along loyally with those who only yesterday had been their fiercest enemies—and…
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Theodor Herzl
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1897