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Jewish Military Service
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1824 years from the Destruction. Issue no. 36The rumor about military service for the Jews in our land comes in every European newspaper, in almost the same form as when we presented it in an earlier…

Contributor:

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1893

Subjects:

Military, Jewish identity, Muslim-Jewish relations, War, Education, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Reportage
Letter to Rome
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Behold, from the time of our settlement in the city that the Lord has chosen, which He had desired for His habitation (Psalms 132:13), we heard your voice and obeyed, for you stand in the breach…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1521

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Scholarship, Rabbis, Israel-Diaspora relations, War, Journalism, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Letters
Editorial about Jews in the American Civil War
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Warsaw, August 15, 1861 [in the weekly journal Jutrzenka (Dawn), August 16, 1861]Everyone knows the reason behind the fratricidal war between secessionists and unionists in the United States. We touch…

Contributor:

Daniel Neufeld

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1861

Subjects:

Slavery, Race, Minority, War, Diaspora, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Journalism
Selections from the Kurant
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Lisbon, July 26. Here three rich Portuguese were detained on suspicion of secretly having practiced their faith. And their lives would have been spared if, God forbid, they would have…

Contributor:

Moses Bar Abraham

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1686–1687

Subjects:

Antisemitism, War, Jewish identity, Crime, Journalism

Categories:

Print & book culture, Journalism