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On the day of Walter Rathenau’s funeral in 1922, all mail and telephone service in Germany was suspended between 2:00 and 2:10 pm
“If he won’t honor our invoice, I’ll simply give him a buzz. Put the…
Contributor:
Kurt Tucholsky
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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This lithograph portrays great figures from Jewish history whose first names are Moses. Clockwise from the center: the biblical Moses (evoking Michelangelo’s famous sculpture), Moses Mendelssohn…
Contributor:
Salo Schottländer
Places:
Germany, Germany
Date:
ca. 1900
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[ . . . ] After the intractable insolence shown by Süss when his sentence was pronounced, he was fettered cross-wise in the Chamber of Nobles, where he was to be confined until execution, and kept…
Contributor:
Lion Feuchtwanger
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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This cup and saucer set features a portrait of Jewish German banker Isaac Daniel Itzig and a picture of one of his homes in Berlin, the Bartholdy Meierei (Bartholdi dairy) on Köpenickerstrasse…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1795
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I must first briefly describe human nature. Namely, we people contain within us the four fundamental [elements] like all other species of creation that are below us or inferior to us. It…
Contributor:
Isaac Wetzlar
Places:
Holy Roman Empire (Celle, Germany)
Date:
1749