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In the days when…
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Jacob Cansino
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Madrid, Spanish Empire (Madrid, Spain)
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1638
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Today I returned from my trip to Tunis, and I will start to record what I witnessed, heard, and felt. On Thursday, 15 Iyyar (May 20, 1943), I left Tripoli. [ . . . ]
On that day…
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Ephraim E. Urbach
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Tripoli, British Military Administration of Libya (Tripoli, Libya)
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1943
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On Thursday, the twentieth day of the month of Ziv, which is Iyyar, the government announced the capture of Berlin, the city of blood, the capital of the cruel German nation, may their name be blotted…
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Joseph Messas
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Tlemcen, French Algeria (Tlemcen, Algeria)
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1945
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The debate in 1978 was not cathartic. It was just the opposite. Here we have something of a textbook example of the reciprocity between the present and collective memory…
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Anita Shapira
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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2000
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Photographs shock us in so far as they show us something novel. Unfortunately, the ante keeps getting raised—partly through the very proliferation of such images of horror. One’s first encounter with…
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Susan Sontag
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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In the year 5121 (1361 CE), Sultan Murad I conquered the great city of Adrianople—called Edirne by the Turks and Endirne by the Jews…
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Salomon Rosanes
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Sofia, Ottoman Empire (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Date:
1914
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Collection of writings, proclamations, and epistles related to the controversy between Hasidim and Misnagdim during the emergence of Hasidism (1772–1816)
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Simon Dubnov
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1918
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Mordkhe Spektor [1858–1925] was the “honorary chair” of the “Society of Gluttons and Drunkards.” Though he had not been elected to this “post,” everyone felt that Spektor was the singular candidate…
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Elkhonen Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1937
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In the course of 1948 and the first half of 1949, a number of processes definitively changed the physical and demographic face of Palestine. Taken collectively, they steadily rendered…
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Benny Morris
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
Date:
1987
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We had more or less forgotten them. We wanted to convince ourselves, without really trying to find out, that the march of time had left them satisfied, happy, at peace. The quarrels provoked by…
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Henri Chemouilli
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1972