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I have just spent a few days in Tunis.
My pleasure increases each time I return to that city and its inhabitants and experience the liveliness of the Avenue Jules-Ferry, and above all, the free and…
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Jacques Lazarus
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Algiers, Algeria
Date:
1948
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I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted…
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Saul Bellow
Date:
1953
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Abraham Rademaker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1730/1
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Anonymous
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1741
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Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724) occupied a number of prominent roles, including court Jew, Austrian financier, and chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia. This portrait was painted around the time when he…
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Artist Unknown
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
ca. 1700
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Artist Unknown
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(The Hague, Netherlands)
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ca. 1685
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Every now and then a different door in the long corridor of the IsPolKom [Executive Committee] would yawn open, partly exposing the profiles of the office workers, emit a hum of muffled chatter and…
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Peretz Markish
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1928
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On his way home Gurdweill tried without success to find the reason for Lotte’s strange behaviour. He went over everything he had said in her house in his mind: there was nothing that could have…
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David Vogel
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1929
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In the swirling ballroom, chandeliers poured a corrosive milk over diamond-laced shoulders, and perfumes spun coils of desire between men and languid women swept round by the orchestra. Solal…
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Albert Cohen
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Genève, Switzerland
Paris, France
Date:
1930
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They would run into each other twice a day: early in the morning, going to work; and in the evening, coming back. They would see one another on the same sidewalk, but they were headed in opposite…
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Hirsh Bloshtein
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
ca. 1930