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The story of my life is only exceptional in that it represents a great change of identity in the heart of the Jewish people. [ . . . ]
I was born a Jewish Algerian—a French citizen to boot—and during…
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Léon Ashkenazi
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Orsay, France
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1967
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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, United States of America
Date:
1893
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Like every shtetl Medzibosz has a main street, and side streets and back streets. Nowadays the old hunched little huts have mostly vanished, and there are new houses in their place—not everywhere.
Thi…
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Shmuel Gordon
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1966
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October 10, 1912
Berlin-Grunewald
Delbrückstr. 23
Dear Mr. Strauß!
That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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Dear Editor,
I am a Russian revolutionist and a freethinker. Here in America I became acquainted with a girl who is also a freethinker. We decided to marry, but the problem is that she has Orthodox…
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The Forward
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New York, United States of America
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1906
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When about two years ago the wish arose in me to explain the artistic basis of the new trends evident in the “Ballets Russes,” my attempt, which appeared as an article entitled “On the New Ballet” (Ap…
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André Levinson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1913
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My childhood, if we’re speaking of relations at home, was exceptionally easy; I never felt a need to rebel against my parents’ conservatism. I encountered no gates to break through—they were all…
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Artur Sandauer
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Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1963
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We are embarking on the publication of a new journal devoted to the affairs of the workers and masses of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel and the Ottoman Empire. We wish to create a journal…
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Editorial Board of Ha-Aḥdut
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1910
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Mrs. Frederick Nathan returned to New York last week after a summer spent in the various capitals of Europe, where she attended numerous congresses and met the leaders of the European feminist…
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Maud Nathan
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New York, United States of America
Boston, United States
Date:
1913
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I traveled from Odessa by boat for eleven days until we arrived in Jaffa—this was the path taken by the Russian company’s ships. However, this was not the true length of the journey, which was in fact…
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Mordechai ben Hillel ha-Kohen
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1890