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An agent of the kahal who is charged with monitoring Jewish cases in the police and in giving gifts to officials is a Jewish middleman.
Jews utilize the art of the middleman not only in trade…
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Jacob Brafman
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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1869
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We have already offered a glimpse, in our program, into the nature of this publication. Yet the desire to open our heart, especially to those benevolent people who have looked favorably upon…
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Giuseppe Levi and Esdra Pontremoli
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Vercelli, Kingdom of Sardinia (Vercelli, Italy)
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1853
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Gentile is a category of difference. It is the point of departure, something self-evident. The Jew at prayer declares this daily: “Thou hast chosen us from all the…
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Adi Ophir
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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2001
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In this city there are, in effect, for an approximate total of 60,000 Jews, about thirty Israelite culture groups, which are developing with relative prosperity and an excellent measure of success…
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A Buenos Aires Jewish Library
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1916
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Noted for Service, the Jewish woman, especially in America, faces her greatest opportunities.
It has always been the same story for her. Her home has been the circle from which she has radiated…
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Belle Moskowitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1917
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A remarkable transformation is occurring in our days. From the confusion of imported trends that have been crowding Judaism over the past century, an element that has long been overlooked is emerging…
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Davis Trietsch, Leo Winz
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Berlin, Germany
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1901
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We want to scrape off the eggshells of the ghetto and live as children of the present in the midst of German intellectual life, but without breaking with our past and shaking off the legitimate…
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Eugen Fuchs
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Berlin, Germany
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1912
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23 Tevet 5643, to the Publisher [Peretz Smolenskin]!The trials and tribulations that afflicted us in the land of our…
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Am Oylom
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United States, United States of America
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1882
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- WorkersHandicraft and small industry: guilds (tsekhn)Trade and industry under Aryan trusteesFree professions: doctors, lawyers…
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Oyneg Shabes Archive
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1942
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[ . . . ] If against the assimilationist the American spirit affirms the right to be different, against the segregationist it affirms the right of free association of the different with one another…
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Horace M. Kallen
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New York, United States of America
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1942