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Blessed Adonai,
may Haman always die,
viva Mordechai,
Esther my lady.
Viva my lady,
blessed Adonai,
may Haman always die,
viva Mordechai.
David:
It is…
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Anonymous
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Hamburg, Free Imperial City of Hamburg
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1699
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Wisdom rests quietly in a wise man (Proverbs 14:33); nothing which he purposes to do will be withheld from him [see Job 42:2]. I envisioned a man who was diligent in his labor, who was as bright as…
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A Jewish Student in Germany
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Frankfurt- Oder, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
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End of the 17th Century
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Joining the meeting [of the Mahamad; board of governors] was ḥakham [R.] David Cohen who reported that it was brought to his attention that a very scandalous book from…
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The Portuguese Jewish Community of Hamburg
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
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1656
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When it came time for me to start school, my mother went to the director of the Wilhelm Pieck School in Katowice, Poland, where we were living then, to register me. My sister, nine years my senior…
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Henryk M. Broder
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(Berlin, Germany)
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1979
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[…] I want to tell you about my brother’s ghost.
I had so looked forward to seeing him again: my Schorschi, my Czech brother, who had sent us a few postcards from Theresienstadt. But he wasn’t there…
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Ruth Klüger
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Munich, Germany
(Irvine, United States of America)
Date:
1992
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The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were tormented; they experienced terrible things. But from time to time they also experienced fine and wonderful things. They suffered. But they also loved. Except that…
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki
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Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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1999
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If it hadn’t been for Hitler there would be no Israel. If there had been no Holocaust there would be no Jewish State today. How often this line of reasoning is used! Even the German-British writer…
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Michael Wolffsohn
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Munich, West Germany
(Munich, Germany)
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1988
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Today in Germany it seems Jewish assimilation must declare its bankruptcy. The general social antisemitism and its official legitimation affects in the first instance assimilated Jews, who can no…
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Hannah Arendt
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1933
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During the thousands of years of its history, Judaism has learned and experienced a good deal. In its people the commanding urge to think further, to struggle with ideas, has…
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Leo Baeck
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1922
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Max Liebermann
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920