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Speech: The Frank Tragedy, the Jews, and the Negroes
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That Leo Frank was lynched primarily because he was a Jew has been asserted by the most serious, and best informed newspapers all over the country. A newspaper like the local Evening Post went so far…

Contributor:

Abraham Liessin

Places:

Cincinnati, United States of America

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Racism, Antisemitism, Black-Jewish relations, Race, Social justice

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
Prophet Marx Speech
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Marx was a prophet, no less so than Isaiah, Jeremiah, or Ezekiel. With honest conviction and courage he proclaimed the economic liberation of humanity. He appealed to the workers of the world and…

Contributor:

Abraham Shiplacoff

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1910s

Subjects:

Socialism, Economic life, Class, Social justice

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Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
Czernowitz Conference Speech Celebrating Yiddish
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Honored Conference: Three liberating moments in Jewish history created our movement. I don’t want to be a prophet, and to proclaim that we are now experiencing a new historical moment, that we are…

Contributor:

Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Scholarship, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Hasidism, Jewish languages

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
I. M. Weissenberg Memorial
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We live in a prison. We have been degraded to the level of homeless and uncared-for animals. When we…

Contributor:

Abraham Lewin

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1941

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Education, Death, Mourning

Categories:

Political Culture, Speeches