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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
Places:
Munich, West Germany (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1988
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The historiography of no people is so beset with the pretentious and condemnatory views of dilettantes as is that of the Israelites, which everyone fancies to know from the relevant sources. Thus, no…
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Isaac Markus Jost
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1832
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The time has come for me to touch upon the people of the Vilna leadership. When Iosif Mil was away and I joined it, the acknowledged leader was my acquaintance A[rkady] Kremer (“Aleksandr”). His…
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Julius Martov
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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The position of the Jewish woman in Germany today cannot be ascertained from understanding the present alone. A brief look at the recent and distant past—perhaps even the long-distant past—is…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1935
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Much has been written concerning the pogroms of Jews in the Ukraine in 1918–21. Countless reports of the atrocities perpetrated by the bandits in various cities and towns were published in the Jewish…
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Nahum Gergel
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928
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[ . . . ] After the intractable insolence shown by Süss when his sentence was pronounced, he was fettered cross-wise in the Chamber of Nobles, where he was to be confined until execution, and kept…
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Lion Feuchtwanger
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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“The living faith has vanished. . . . All that remains is poetry!” A superficial observer of life in the ghetto might come to more or less the same conclusion about the way…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
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Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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The way in which the Jewish world will merge into the European follows from the above-mentioned principle. To merge does not mean to perish [aufgehen ist nicht untergehen]. Only the obstinate, self…
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Eduard Gans
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1822
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Every day they took from us whatever their hearts desired. They said to us, “We are needed to protect you from the mob.” We had no choice but to believe them. We had to take being cheated. They…
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Elhanan Helen
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1616