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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Carl Alexander. Economic reforms enacted by Carl Alexander (and informed by Oppenheimer…
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Artist Unknown
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Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1738
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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1724
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The Jewish cemetery of Altona is made up of two separate cemeteries, one Sephardic (established in 1611 and later expanded several times) and one Ashkenazic (1616, also later expanded). In the…
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
17th and 18th Centuries
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The night draws in around my eyes
Its ring of haze.
My pulse has sent my blood into a blaze
Though all about me a gray coldness lies.
O God, that I by living day
Should dream I’m dead,
Drink it in…
Contributor:
Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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In came the beginning of the month of December 1918.
Like the cheerless, cold drizzle, dirty frozen air hovers over the fields. Everywhere fragments of sky seem to be scattered over mounds of earth…
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David Bergelson
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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Chapter 19
When Süss returned to his prison cell, he found his uncle waiting for him. In tears he fell into the arms of the dignified old man and told him everything that had happened to him. Rabbi…
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Marcus Lehmann
Places:
Mainz, German Empire (Mainz, Germany)
Date:
1897