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Friends of my age,
My happy generation,
We strode, pained-pleased,
Through the wreckage of whole worlds.
Before the living and the dead
fell on our portion
Inherited old skins
of ourselves—and…
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Aharon Kushnirov
Date:
1931
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Mordecai:A Judgment Day on you and all the Hamans, today and forevermore—
Haman:Amen! Mordecai, I think you and I will yet be good friends—yes, Motya? [Maudlin.] Come closer, Motya, and I’ll tell you…
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Chaim Sloves
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Paris, Military Administration in France (Paris, France)
Date:
1940
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Was there an element of cowardice in the attitude of the Jewish masses, who preferred to suffer the worst degradation rather than revolt? Given the terrible conditions created by the fierce anti…
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Jean-François Steiner
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1967
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It is for us, for all of us together,
To assist, to liberate, to rescue brothers,
From capture, from hunger and slaughter—
Rescue them from the vile Nazi oppressor.
Every man and woman whose soul…
Contributor:
Yehuda Karni
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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Wherein I, Simon Sit in Judgment
On an afternoon in the month of Nisan, which is the sweetest time of the year, the bells were sounded; and I, Simon, the least, the most unworthy of all my…
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Howard Fast
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1948
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I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. The old Inquisition had its rack and…
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Rosa Schneiderman
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911
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Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…
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Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1907
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Politishes verter-bukh (A Dictionary of Political Terms) is an anonymous work billed as “an interpretation of the strange words that are used in Yiddish newspapers, journals, and political and…
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1907
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The war went on and would not be stopped. On the contrary. It proved futile to hold it to any schedule or limit. At no prearranged time would the land be quiet, not at harvest time, not near winter…
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Chaim Hazaz
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1924
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There was a mysterious jar on one of the shelves. It contained about twenty gray, hard, colorless, tasteless little rods and did not have a label. This was very strange, because it was a German…
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Primo Levi
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Turin, Italy
Date:
1975