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[ . . . ] In the country as well as in the town, I lived in a petty-bourgeois environment where the principal effort was directed toward acquisition. In this respect, I cut myself off both from the…
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Leon Trotsky
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Alma Ata, USSR (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Büyükada, Turkey
Date:
1929
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One afternoon a friend from class asked me a religious question. After I answered her, she remarked that it was curious that our teacher had not been able to answer the same question. “Don’t be so…
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Reina ha-Kohen
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1908
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In these years of the 1880s, as anti-Semitism raged all over Russia, there were only two ways for the Jews. Either give up all that had become essential to them, in the name of Judaism; or take the…
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Pauline Wengeroff
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Russian Empire (Belarus, Belarus)
Date:
1913
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In the month of Tevet of the same year I entered that school and began studying Greek with tremendous dedication. I repented of all my previous actions and habits, just as I had promised my father (of…
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Abraham Rosanes
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Ruse, Ottoman Empire (Ruse, Bulgaria)
Date:
1864
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I’d known right away that I’d dressed all wrong for the interview, and I sensed even this early that it was becoming a formality. I’d prepared myself to play it in Jack Carter’s cool way. But the imp…
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Ted Solotaroff
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1998
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Jonas saw that he was successful in the study of these sciences and that he had mastered the Latin tongue; in addition, his younger brother, who would be taking over his role in the family had grown…
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Judah Jeitteles
Places:
Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1821