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How preposterous and ridiculous! I have been attacked all my life as a Jew and because I am a Jew, and could not forget nor deny that I am a Jew, even if I wanted to. I am just as proud as Spinoza was…
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Georg Brandes
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1914
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January 8. Lecture by [Leo] Fantl on Goldhaupt, “he tosses the enemy like a barrel.”
Insecurity, dryness, tranquility, in these everything will pass.
What do I have in common with Jews? I have…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1914
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[The writings of the nineteenth-century maskilic writers] Perets Smolenskin and Yitsḥok Erter opened cracks in the faith of Hasidic young men [like Asch himself]. Their life of [Talmud] study without…
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Sholem Asch
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1915
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The city of Urfa, located between Palestine and Karaman, was the site of a very well-organized and previously planned massacre.
On the past August 18…
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Alexander Benghiat
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İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1918
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There were other inimical forces, too, besides the police and the Enemy, more uncanny and less palpable forces. When I dragged behind the nursemaid who held my younger brother by the hand…
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Georg Brandes
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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1905
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I was born and raised in Fuerth, a predominantly Protestant manufacturing city of Middle Franconia, with a large Jewish community consisting principally of artisans and tradesmen. The Jews formed…
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Jakob Wasserman
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Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Altaussee, Austria
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1921
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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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In the spring of 1961, I flunked an exam that would have enabled me to write an honors thesis. In reality, it was a minor failure—I was spending most of my time at the Crimson building, where I was…
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Paul Cowan
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New York, United States of America
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1982
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To be in exile, with a religious or historical sense that one is exiled, is to have already a mission and purpose in life. One’s clear project then is to end the exile and to return to…
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Morris Grossman
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Fairfield, United States of America
Date:
1986
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“The comparative image of Natal’ia Rostova and Tat’iana Larina”—indeed, which one of them would have worked better on the Line?
The mid-1990s, the desert, a profitable little newly fledged factory on…
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Tatiana Akhtman
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1997