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My grandfather’s kinsman, a Jew who tamed bears,
Performed in the market towns;
By day his beast was confined in chains;
At night, they danced under the stars.
Nicknamed “Ten Commandments,” the man…
Contributor:
Moyshe Kulbak
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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I am a stranger.
Since no one dares approach me
I would be girded with towers
That wear their steep and stone-gray caps
Aloft in clouds.
The brazen key you will not find
That locks the musty…
Contributor:
Gertrud Kolmar
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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The rain cleaned off the steep facade of houses;
I write upon the white and stony sheet
And feel how my tired hand so softly rouses
From love poems that always, sweetly, were a cheat.
I wake in the…
Contributor:
Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911
Dear Mrs. N.,
I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…
Contributor:
Bertha Pappenheim
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1911
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Lasar Segall
Places:
Dresden, Weimar Republic
(Dresden, Germany)
Date:
1919
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Jankel Adler
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1931
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Fritz Landauer
Places:
Plauen, Weimar Republic
(Plauen, Germany)
Date:
1928–1930
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[ . . . ] The eve of the Jewish Day of Atonement. In the morning, I wander down Gesia Street, a long thoroughfare. A few stores are still open, the majority are already closing. A tremendous human…
Contributor:
Alfred Döblin
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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The renaissance of the Maccabean festival, which began with the onset of modern nationalism, signified a great revolution in Jewish thinking. The Jew aspired to leave behind the unworthy life of exile…
Contributor:
Robert Weltsch
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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Nineteen nineteen was one of the most difficult years for the Bolsheviks. The civil war flared up in every corner of Russia. In Ukraine, Petliura, Grigoriev, Denikin…
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Daniel Charney
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Moscow, USSR
(Moscow, Russia)
Wilno, Second Polish Republic
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Warszawa, French Republic
(New York City, United States of America)
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Late 1930s