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Nineteen nineteen was one of the most difficult years for the Bolsheviks. The civil war flared up in every corner of Russia. In Ukraine, Petliura, Grigoriev, Denikin…
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Daniel Charney
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Wilno, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Warszawa, Second Polish Republic
Paris, French Republic
Date:
Late 1930s
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Today it is possible for us to observe the process of Hellenization in individual features only. But these features are sufficiently significant to enable…
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Elias Bickerman
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1935
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There’s an old joke that’s told about a Martian who accidentally crashes his spaceship on the streets of New York. In search of a new set of tires for his craft, he happens to pass a bagel shop…
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Matthew Goodman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2005
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It is well known that tunes of songs, no less than their texts, often provide an historical mirror of an exceedingly sharp focus. A special category of such songs are the so- called “migrating” or…
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A. B. Yehoshua
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1980
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What does it mean to study women’s religion? How are we to define our subject matter? How are we to understand the relationship of the history of women’s religious life and practice to the history of…
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Chava Weissler
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Bethlehem, United States of America
Date:
1998
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He was late.
Under normal circumstances, she would have considered it a minor annoyance, a matter of a dinner grown cold, or a delay in helping the children with their homework, or an errand that…
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Glenn Frankel
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1999
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Gathering the sources was a modern way of closing ranks, of reaffirming the essential unity of Jewish experience as one vale of tears through space and time. The harder the times, the more desperately…
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Samuel D. Kassow
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1984
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If it hadn’t been for Hitler there would be no Israel. If there had been no Holocaust there would be no Jewish State today. How often this line of reasoning is used! Even the German-British writer…
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Michael Wolffsohn
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Munich, West Germany (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1988
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We, the screamers, have been at it now for about ten years. We started on the night when the epileptic van der Lubbe set fire to the German Parliament; we said that if you don’t quench those flames at…
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Arthur Koestler
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1944
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A few days before the surrender of Germany, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, sent out a call to American newspaper editors which may be…
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David P. Boder
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1949