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Hellenistic Period, 4th–2nd Century BCE
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David Heinz Gumbel
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Heilbronn, Weimar Republic
(Heilbronn, Germany)
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1930–1939
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1574
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Can you guess, children, which is the best of all holidays? Hannukah, of course.
You don’t go to cheder for eight days in a row, you eat pancakes every day, spin your dreidel to your heart’s content…
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Sholem Aleichem
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(Ukraine, Ukraine)
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1900
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“The living faith has vanished. . . . All that remains is poetry!” A superficial observer of life in the ghetto might come to more or less the same conclusion about the way…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
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Litzmannstadt, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
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1943
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17th Century
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This Hanukkah Lamp from Poland is made from brass and would likely have been placed near the Torah ark in a synagogue. An engraved and cast eagle sits above a domed cupola, representing gratitude and…
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17th Century
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Now, my dear friends, do you see what you’re doing? The Holy Days indulged in arrogant boasting, in envy and hatred and warfare. Hanukkah tried to fight them all and carry the day…
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Zalman Sofer
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Oldendorf, Holy Roman Empire
(Oldendorf, Germany)
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1517
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, German Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1880
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The Holy Fire, one of the greatest examples of religious resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, explores a theological explanation for Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.
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Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1942