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Neither Forget nor Deny I Am a Jew
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How preposterous and ridiculous! I have been attacked all my life as a Jew and because I am a Jew, and could not forget nor deny that I am a Jew, even if I wanted to. I am just as proud as Spinoza was…

Contributor:

Georg Brandes

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

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Class, Antisemitism, Philosophy

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Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
A Kol Nidre Service at the Gȩsia Street Cemetery
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I was then in Warsaw for the second time. That city had always exerted a powerful attraction for me, with its great and all-encompassing Jewish life. When I was in the Polish capital for the first…

Contributor:

Yankev Botoshanski

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Date:

1956

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Class, Holidays, Yom Kippur, Cemetery

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries