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[ . . . ] In regard to the boycott [of German goods], in my view, the rabbis ought to have stood aloof, at a distance, and not to have involved themselves with this at all, as this is an issue…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
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Vilna, Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1933
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The time (in which we live) is truly “a time to work for the Almighty,” and great is the responsibility now falling upon every Jew with the ability to do so. [ . . . ] All the lands of the diaspora…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
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Vilna, Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1934
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1. Giedymin, the great prince of Lithuania, who dwelt in the fortress of the city of Troki, once went forth…
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1860
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women did not participate in the free professions regularly because at that time institutes of higher education had not yet opened their doors to them. The…
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Pinchas Kon
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Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1929
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The situation of our brethren in Germany is so frightful that it is unparalleled since the Middle Ages and the time of the decrees of 1648 and 1649. [ . . . ] In “cultured” Germany an enemy has arisen…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
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Vilna, Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1933
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The year 5480 of the creation of the earth and heaven, in the first month, which is the month of Nisan, the wailing of the oppressed increased. For then the hooligans began to cut off and harry the…
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Shabbetai ha-Kohen Katz
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Vilna, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1651
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[ . . . ] I wrote yesterday to my friend, the illustrious rabbi, our teacher, Rabbi S. Ahronson, and to Rabbi Meir Hildesheimer himself, may his light shine, in a sharp tone, making it clear that I…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
Places:
Vilna, Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1934