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But you, West Slavic Jews, you who are so proud of your intelligence and education, you who are so proud of the sciences that you tend like exotic plants [ . . . ] I ask whether you are so…
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David Kuh
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Budapest, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1844
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You ask me for my opinion on the question which at present agitates so greatly the minds of men, emancipation; whether I consider it feasible and desirable, according to the spirit of Judaism, our…
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Samson Raphael Hirsch
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Oldenburg, German Confederation (Oldenburg, Germany)
Date:
1836
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But was it surprising, when in the midst of such social circumstances or actually disarray, an intellectual sociability was offered, despite the prejudices that prevailed against the Jews at that time…
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Henriette de Lemos Herz
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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“Well, as you know already, the story is about Esterka, the daughter of the Jew to whom this house belongs. She was ten years old when he came here, and tall of her age, with black hair and large blue…
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Karl Emil Franzos
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Stuttgart, Germany
Date:
1873
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In the supplement of Sürgöny, a certain…
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Löw Schwab
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Pest, Austrian Empire (Pest, Hungary)
Date:
1840
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This painting portrays an imagined meeting of Jewish scholar Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), and the Swiss theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801)…
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1856