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The Melting Pot
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Vera [Agitated, coming nearer]:  Irony, Mr. Quixano? Please, please, do not imagine there is any irony in my congratulations.David:  The irony is in all the congratulations. How can I endure them when…

Contributor:

Israel Zangwill

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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Assimilation, Migration, Nationalism, Cities

Categories:

Performing Arts, Theater/Drama
Page with English title and image of crowd of people emerging from a pot next to the Statue of Liberty.
About Jews
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Dark-faced foreigners have flooded the city. They go about rushing through the boulevards, but in the suburbs they already stop to congregate, talk in a strong and loud voice, heavily gesticulating. I…

Contributor:

Sándor Bródy

Places:

Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Cities, Nationalism, Christian-Jewish relations, Death

Categories:

Political Culture, Religion & Theology, Firsthand Accounts
Jewish London
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A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…

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Simon Gelberg

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London, United Kingdom

Date:

1901

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Diaspora, Jewish quarters

Categories:

Literature, Reportage