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It is April 1959, I’m standing at the railing of the Batory’s upper deck, and I feel that my life is ending. I’m looking out at the crowd that has gathered on the shore to see the ship’s departure…
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Eva Hoffman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1989
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My experience with discrimination—especially at the hands of the Paul, Weiss firm over my Sabbath observance—caused me an embarrassing moment during my interview for the Supreme Court clerkship I did…
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Alan Dershowitz
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Boston, United States of America
Date:
1991
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More than once I began writing to you, and each time I took my pen in my hand I felt in my inner heart that in writing I will say nothing—to see you face to face, heart to heart, and to fall on each…
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Zalman Anokhi
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Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1906
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[ . . . ] Jewish immigration to South America has now been going on for fully twenty-five years, primarily to Argentina. This immigration began with such energy and…
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Peretz Hirshbein
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1914
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At the beginning of the Jewish labor movement in the Pale of Settlement in Russia, Jewish youth began to return from Russian to Yiddish. This started with a free choice, as later on we chose Hebrew…
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Rachel Katznelson-Shazar
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Kibbutz Kvutzat Kinneret, Ottoman Palestine (Kinneret, Israel)
Kibbutz Kvutzat Kinneret, Ottoman Palestine (Kinneret)
Date:
1918
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No, we will not have children. Sometimes, with the passing of generations, a generation arises that takes for itself all the wellsprings of life that eternity prepared for an eternity without leaving…
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Rachel Katznelson-Shazar
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1918