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There are contradictions and ambivalences in our celebrating Thanksgiving. We are recent Americans. It wasn’t the Mayflower that brought our people over here. We know too much about what the coming of…
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Anne Roiphe
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1981
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Good night, wide world.
Big, stinking world.
Not you, but I, slam the gate.
In my long robe,
With my flaming, yellow patch,
With my proud gait,
At my own command—
I return to the ghetto.
Wipe out…
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Jacob Glatstein
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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Shortly before Paris was occupied, Maurice had me return to my native Morocco.
My parents—my dear parents whom I loved so much and whom I never saw again—were, alas, dead. The other members of the…
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Degracia
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Paris, France
Date:
1968
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With every stone that was set in the new barn, another drop of life seemed to ebb from the wife of the randar or tavern keeper. When she looked out at the building, she often said that she would not…
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Leopold Kompert
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Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1848
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Of course I could explain the history and the comings and goings of the Jews, assuring you that they have suffered much, that everyone persecuted them because they could, that those caricatures you’d…
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David Viñas
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1957
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The Breavmans founded and presided over most of the institutions which make the Montreal Jewish community one of the most powerful in the world today.
The joke around the city is: The Jews are the…
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Leonard Cohen
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Hydra, Greece
Date:
1963
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In the tercentenary year of Jewish settlement in America, this volume is offered as evidence that the past decade—a mid-century point—has seen the publication of some of the most…
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Harold U. Ribalow
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1955
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I want to be a Pole. You have my word!
I want to reach the peak of Polishness
But I can find no way to manage:
They always shout: “You’re a jew!”
When I defend the jews from slander,
Hoping to…
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Leo Belmont
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1900
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There was a boy, Raphael, and a girl, Judith. The latter gave promise of great beauty. Both received a careful education, in accordance with the requirements of the age, from a tutor, one Herr…
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Karl Emil Franzos
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1891
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“You come from Poland, Monsieur David . . . ?”
“Davidovich.”
Lévy, his host, looking with desperation at the traveling salesman, supplied the name. Still sweating from fear, Lévy was now sweating for…
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Jean-Richard Bloch
Places:
French Republic (France, France)
Date:
1912