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Before continuing my story about the events in Pinsk in the summer of 1940, I would like to digress briefly into the realm of the miraculous. Let us imagine the impossible—something fantastic and…
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Julius Margolin
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1947
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Was there an element of cowardice in the attitude of the Jewish masses, who preferred to suffer the worst degradation rather than revolt? Given the terrible conditions created by the fierce anti…
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Jean-François Steiner
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1967
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“If the majority of Jews in Berber territory speak Arabic as their native language and use Spanish when doing business, their main concern is that Hebrew be the…
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Haïm Zafrani
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Paris, France
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1969
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In every caste system the lower caste occupies a marginal position vis-à-vis the upper caste. The Jews were a marginal element to the Polish nobility. The margin was not isolated, for the Jews could…
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Aleksander Hertz
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Paris, Polish People’s Republic
(Poland)
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1961
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Dedicated to Dr. Zunz, the grandmaster of Jewish scholarship, on his 90th birthday.
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Wilhelm Bacher
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1884
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It was in the early eighteenth century (1700–1706) when some Ottoman Jews of Spanish and Portuguese origin left Turkey to settle in Vienna. A chronicle has preserved for us the names of the three…
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Moïse Franco
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
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1897
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One must love one’s country, defend it, obey its laws, love one’s fellow citizens, and not disturb their peace.
Work toward the well-being, peace, and prosperity of the…
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Jewish Colonization Association
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
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1911
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Certainly, the collective will of diaspora Jews is assured neither of success nor of perennial life. It is situated in history, subject to the erosion and constraints of history, equally conditioned…
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Richard Marienstras
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1973
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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…
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Joseph Nehama
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1913
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The body and face of the colonized are not a pretty sight. It is not without damage that one carries the weight of such historical misfortune. If the colonizer’s face…
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Albert Memmi
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1957