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From here to the shrine of Nabi Moussa was some twenty-five miles. Allah, wanting to placate his favorite, and mitigate the punishment which He had imposed on him in His anger, had…
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Yitshak Shami
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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)
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1925
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In the ruins of the Ghetto of Warsaw, among heaps of charred rubbish, there was found, packed tightly into a small bottle, the following testament, written during the ghetto’s last hours by a Jew…
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Zvi Kolitz
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1946
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And now, good friends, as we observe the adventures of Isaac, we are shaken and stunned. This Isaac who is no worse than any other person, why is he punished so harshly? Is it because he teased a dog…
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S. Y. Agnon
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1945
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Shylock:You speak of revenge, you who cage us within ghettos, you who cast us alive into flames, only because we are Jews. [Pause.] Are not Jews and Christians alike fashioned in the image of God…
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Maurice Schwartz
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New York, United States of America
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1947
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When I was still young, nineteen years of age, it entered my mind to fool the world (as was the practice of the “holy ones” in those days), and this was the scheme I adopted: I used to travel on…
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Isaac Ber Levinzon
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Kremenets, Russian Empire
(Kremenets, Ukraine)
Date:
1833
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“No I say; enough is enough! On their behalf I prayed, for their benefit I cried my eyes out. Enough! I say, no! May I be struck dumb if I will say one more word, not even my name, Gnesye.” She had a…
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Rokhl Brokhes
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1922
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“All vows and oaths we take, all promises and obligations, we make to God between this Yom Kippur and the next we hereby publicly retract in the event that we should forget them, and hereby declare…
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Hugh Nissenson
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New York, United States of America
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2005
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The smell of fishink tships followed us down the stairs. Although we were all thinking about food, no one mentioned it but Brokheh. Did she let loose with a mouthful! She hoped to God, she said, that…
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Sholem Aleichem
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New York, United States of America
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1916
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The worst conflagration is that which flares up from the depths. All the water in the world can’t extinguish such a fire before it has gutted everything in its way, because by the time it has been…
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Mordekhai Feierberg
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899