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For four hours I sat engrossed while old Gershon Falk told his story, feeling all the while as though I were listening to a fantastic saga—as though I were in the presence of one from another time…
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Sh. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1925
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Lajos Kelemen was an upright and honest man throughout his life. He arrived in this world in June, thereby sparing his mother the ever-present concern whether or not he would catch a cold while being…
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Erno Ballagi, Jeno Nádor
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1921
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Theresa Concordia Mengs
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Dresden, Holy Roman Empire (Dresden, Germany)
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1745
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A few days after receiving your precious letter of 5 November 1854, I began collating [the pages of my book], which took me until New Year’s eve to finish. But what a chasm in between! I began the…
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Daniel Khvolson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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ca. 1855
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I wish, then, to describe the four classes to which Jews today belong in order to derive therefrom the principal claim of this discussion, namely: to the extent that the Jews do not take advantage of…
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Lazarus Bendavid
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Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1793
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Jewishness, the conscious affirmation of the qualities that make Jews Jews, presumes a contrast between Us and Them. The Jews constitute an Us; all the rest of humanity, or, in Jewish language, the…
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Shaye J. D. Cohen
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Cambridge, United States of America
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1999
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“There are two synagogues of the German Jews, and one of the Portuguese, twenty-four cubits broad and forty-two long. Each one has its own management; thus the income of one is not mixed with that of…
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Moise Vita Cafsuto
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London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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ca. 1735
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Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann
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Düsseldorf, Germany
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1872
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Tina Blau
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1875–1876
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Formations of soldiers faced each other across the floor, taking cover in domino houses and bunkers of colored blocks. Yurik and Kazik lay by their soldiers. [ . . . ]
But Kazik had stopped playing…
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Uri Orlev
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1958