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In these days when Jews are being killed in Palestine, I chose to go to Grenadierstrasse—not to Jerusalem. I had the feeling it was better to be with the bereaved than the dead. I paid a condolence…
We must not repeat the mistake made by western Jews . . . in denying their nationality and in assimilating completely in all areas of life except religion. . . . We eastern Jews have seen all the…
For many years we have awaited your arrival on our soil. We waited, as we believed that your arrival fulfills our eminent, longing of millennia. To our great pleasure, the joyous day has arrived…
The Secretary
Zionist Organisation
London
Baghdad, 8th September 1922
Dear Sir,
I have the pleasure to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 20th July 1922. It is needless to say that I greatly…
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…
For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
Georgia
City of Savannah
Sheftall Sheftall of the said city, being duly sworn, saith:
That some time in the latter part of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, or the beginning of…
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…
Israel, expressing the sentiments of the Jewish people living on these hospitable shores, in homage to this glorious, historic date, addresses to Argentina’s forefathers who acted that…
[ . . . ] In the country as well as in the town, I lived in a petty-bourgeois environment where the principal effort was directed toward acquisition. In this respect, I cut myself off both from the…