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Stanislaw often told me how much he liked my company, and sometimes he wondered about my Jewishness: “Look at yourself! You cannot be Jewish!” he would exclaim. And yet whenever he spoke to me about…
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Nechama Tec
Places:
Connecticut, United States of America
Date:
1982
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Your Holiness,
As the Chief Rabbi of this community, whose history goes back thousands of years, I wish to express to you my intense satisfaction at the gesture you have wished to carry out today…
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Elio Toaff
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Rome, Italy
Date:
1986
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I just can’t. Should I? I feel like going in, but I just can’t; I remain stationary. The church door opens and closes, continually, and I open and close with it, split asunder. Warmth escapes from…
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Alberto Dines
Places:
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date:
1972
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Max Liebermann
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Munich, German Empire (Munich, Germany)
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1879
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On the 4th of Sivan 5315 [June 3, 1555], after the death of Pope Marcellus [of] La Marche, whose name will be well remembered, though he reigned only twenty-three days, he gave great redemption to…
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Benjamin Nehemiah ben Elnatan
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Civitanova, Papal States (Civitanova Marche, Italy)
Date:
1559–1562
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The polemical Judeo-Spanish work (written in Hebrew characters) Fuente clara (Clear Fountain; drawing on Psalm 84) was published in Salonika. Its anonymous author, a philosopher and physician…
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Unknown
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1595
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The Lord spoke once more to His beloved people on the occasion of our teacher Moses wishing to see His divine glory: no man shall…
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Isaac Orobio de Castro
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1670
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One must not close one’s ears to the heretic, as the orthodox can easily open his eyes. For this reason, pressure and punishment should never be used against any religion. Debates are useful. But…
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Abraham Gómez Silveira
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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End of the 17th or Beginning of the 18th Century
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Every night I kneel down by the window and look at a bright star that just might be my guardian angel. Then I recite “Our Father” to God and say a “Hail Mary” for the Virgin. I hope that…
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Rosa Nissán
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Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1992
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A member of the Greek Church, once addressed me in the following words:—“Do you know wherefore you have no longer a king of your own people? It is because you have rejected the faith of…
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Isaac Troki
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1593