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What is a Jew? Who is a Jew? After this catastrophe, what is a Jew’s relation to the Jewish past? We resume our original question as we turn from one rupture in post-Holocaust Jewish existence—of the…
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Emil L. Fackenheim
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Toronto, Canada
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1982
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Plachy took this photograph on one of her many trips to Central and Eastern Europe. A photojournalist, she has said that she is drawn to scenes peripheral to the actual news story. Here, reflections…
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Sylvia Plachy
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Dachau, West Germany (Dachau, Germany)
Date:
1985
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Finding something to say about Westerbork is also difficult because of its ambiguous character. On the one hand it is a stable community in the making, a forced one to be sure, yet with all the…
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Etty Hillesum
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1943
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Over and above all else we gather here tonight to dedicate ourselves to the loftiest hopes of our country, to renew unshakeable faith in the victory, early or late, of America and all the United…
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Stephen S. Wise
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1942
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It is traditional to begin a new magazine with brave declarations. If we do not, we trust we shall be forgiven.
We begin at a moment heavy with a sense of human destiny. Every schoolboy who listens to…
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Elliot E. Cohen
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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As I thought, I couldn’t manage it the next day, or the day after that. I continued to struggle to write even after three days. And now, too (four days later), I didn’t think I’d…
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Moshe Flinker
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Brussels, Belgium
Date:
1942
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With zeal and zest I threw myself into the work to help assemble archive materials. I was entrusted to be the custodian, I hid the material. Besides me, no one knew. I confided only in my friend Hersh…
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Israel Lichtenstein
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1942
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A round number. At first glance it looks silly and seems to have no specific meaning. A detached number such as this can be likened to those gray people who go through life alone and die without…
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Yehoshua Perle
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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The Führer inquires of General Franco, “Comrade, how did you solve the Jewish problem?”
Franco answers, “I instituted the yellow badge.”
“That’s nothing,” says Hitler. “I imposed tributes…
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Shimon Huberband
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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“All right,” someone will say, “granted you are a Pole. But in that case, why ‘we jews’?” To which I answer: because of blood “Then racialism again?” No, not racialism at all. Quite the contrary.
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Julian Tuwim
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1944