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The degradation took place Saturday, the 5th of January. I underwent the horrible torture without weakness.
Before the ceremony, I waited for an hour in the hall of the garrison…
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Alfred Dreyfus
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Devil's Island, French Guyana (Devil's Island, Guyana)
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1895
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The entire city is talking about the tumult, the uproar in the Jewish Quarter that began after the price of meat started to rise.
The prices for meat not only went up in the Jewish Quarter. The Trusts…
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The Forward
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1902
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Like most of the other colonies established in Bessarabia in the previous century, the colony went through a long sleepy period. Most of the farmers lived simple bucolic lives. In the summer, they…
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M. Verette
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Marculesti, Russian Empire (Marculesti, Moldova)
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1905
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I was lying in bed sick when, on January 5th, 1868, the first issue came out. Understandably, the party line and the competition tried to alienate from me János Jankó, the illustrator of the…
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Adolf Ágai
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
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1887
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This is an age of progress; and, surrounded as we are to-day by every evidence of the astounding advance that the nineteenth century has carried with in its train, I feel that I am flinging down a…
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Julia Richman
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1893
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
First and foremost, I would like to confess to you that when considering the inferior social condition of women, a question came to my mind that left me momentarily perplexed and…
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Anna Kuliscioff
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Milan, Kingdom of Italy (Milan, Italy)
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1894
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“Bar Kokhba” Jewish Society
Cairo, Egypt
Founded the 1st of Adar I 5657
February 1897
Central Headquarters
Mr. Theodor Herzl
Editor of the “Neue Freie Presse”
Vienna
Sir, dear coreligionist in…
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Bar Kokhba Jewish Society
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Egypt, Egypt)
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1897
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Let me be frank: I was there, but as a Zionist. I thought Judaism and Zionism in particular needed to be represented in some way. It was a grand idea, a matter of defending a supreme liberty. Jews…
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Joseph Marco Baruch
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Kingdom of Italy (Italy, Italy)
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1897
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Many Jews in America owe their spiritual-intellectual development to the progressive Yiddish-language periodicals that are published here. But the existing progressive Yiddish-language periodicals are…
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Alexander Harkavy
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1897
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The Goal: To develop in our land a cadre of Jewish guards fit for this task.
The Means: 1. To organize the operating guards in the colonies.
2. To become acquainted with and to prepare in the colonies…
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Hashomer
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Kfar Tavor, Ottoman Palestine (Kfar Tavor, Israel)
Date:
1909