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Every day at siesta time, when under the scorching heat of the sun the little town of Kenadza was breathing its last, Madame Karsenty would settle down on the sofa in the living room where her son…
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Marlène Amar
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Paris, France
Date:
2005
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Things have changed since we last met. Some of your friends have already reached their homeland; others are soon to follow. Once opened, the gates will not shut again. Nothing will ever be the same as…
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Elie Wiesel
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New York, United States of America
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1977
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With his asses, male and female,
His woolly sheep and billy goats,
His oxen and his camels
Bearing wineskins on their backs,
With his wives and his handmaids,
His servants and his…
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Edmond Fleg
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Paris, France
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1913
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December 6, 1913, Havana
To his Eminence Monsieur Haim Nahum, Chief Rabbi of Turkey [Ottoman Empire], Constantinople [Istanbul].
Monsieur Rabbi,
I have the honor of bringing the following facts to…
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Marco Bonomo
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Havana, Cuba
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1913
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To the Committee of the Zionist Organization in Berlin
Salonica, January 3, 1913
Mr. President,
The question of Macedonia was addressed in London and will soon be resolved. What will be done with…
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David Florentin
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1913
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Of all religious phenomena, there are few which, even when considered merely from the outside, give such an immediate impression of life, richness and complexity as…
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Marcel Mauss
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Paris, France
Date:
1909
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Thus there began to form, or to show itself within me that heart so proud and yet so tender, that effeminate and yet indomitable character which, constantly vacillating between weakness and courage,…
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Maurice Sachs
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Paris, France
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1939
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A retrospective exhibit these last few weeks at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris—perhaps too generously big an undertaking—has allowed a wider public to appreciate the originality and importance of…
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Édouard Roditi
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1963
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No Jew, whether a believer or an unbeliever, Zionist or anti-Zionist, can be objective when what is at stake is Israel and the two and a half million Jews who built a State in a land equally Holy for…
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Raymond Aron
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Paris, France
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1967
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I was born in Tunisia, in Tunis, a few steps from that city’s large ghetto. My father, a harness maker, was somewhat pious, naturally somewhat so, as were all men of his trade and his station in life…
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Albert Memmi
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Paris, France
Date:
1962