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Altona, 24 Ab 5603
Chief Rabbi!
Messrs. Adler and Fuld, members of your congregation, asked for my opinion, from the Jewish-religious perspective…
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Jacob Ettlinger
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
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1844
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The Holy Community of Altona, Friday, 29 Marheshvan 5621[14 November 1860]
To my dear friend, father of my son-in-law, the distinguished rabbi, our Teacher, R. Shemaryahu Zuckerman, may his…
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Jacob Ettlinger
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
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1860
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23 October. The actors convince me by their presence time and again, to my consternation, that most of what I’ve written about them so far is wrong. It is wrong because I wrote about them with…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1911
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I want to profess straight off that I am a Jew. Does it require justification if I write in a spirit other than that of defending the Jews? Many of my fellow tribesmen know themselves only as Germans…
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Walter Rathenau
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1897
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[ . . . ] Got together with Werner this afternoon; he wants me to become active in the [Social Democratic] party. Had a discussion about historical materialism that was quite interesting to me. [ . .…
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Gershom Scholem
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1915
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I adapted the above psalm to my situation, for the blessed Lord freed me from the Inquisition—although broken, I was released and free—where I saw eleven seeming penitents burned to death for heresy…
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David Abenatar Melo
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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1626
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An apology for the fact that this is written in the language of Ashkenaz (in Hochdeutch [German]). In my opinion, there are two good reasons for this: first, I have found written in…
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Lów Wallach
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1716
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In these days when Jews are being killed in Palestine, I chose to go to Grenadierstrasse—not to Jerusalem. I had the feeling it was better to be with the bereaved than the dead. I paid a condolence…
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Joseph Roth
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1929
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Not seldom, when in conversation my partner draws me into a plural—that is, as soon as he includes my person in whatever connection and says to me: “We Jews . . .”—I feel a not exactly tormenting, but…
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Jean Améry
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1966
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Berlin-Grunewald
Tauberstr. 16
February 26, 1970
Dear Mr. Scholem,
Writing this letter does not come easily to me; hence the long delay. And now you know already that I have not been able to decide in…
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Peter Szondi
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Berlin, West Germany (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1970