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The Writing on the Wall: Almstadtstrasse (Formerly Grenadierstrasse 7): Slide Projection of Former Hebrew Bookstore, Berlin (1930)
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In The Writing on the Wall, Attie brought the ghosts of pre-World War II Jewish life in Berlin temporarily to life by projecting black-and-white slides of Jewish schools, bookstores, kosher butchers…

Contributor:

Shimon Attie

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1993

Subjects:

Photography, Conceptualism, Jewish identity, Holocaust, Memory

Categories:

Photography, Historical writing
Photograph of blank city wall with projection of storefront over it and car in foreground.
History of the Viliampole Jewish Ghetto Police
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Sunday, November 1 [1942], it was announced in the order of the day that all policemen must assemble at twenty minutes past two in the premises of the former Slobodka Yeshive for a solemn oath-taking…

Contributor:

Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police

Places:

Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Music, Jewish identity, Prayer & liturgy, Holocaust

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Historical writing
Guidelines for the Study of the Warsaw Ghetto
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    WorkersHandicraft and small industry: guilds (tsekhn)Trade and industry under Aryan trusteesFree professions: doctors, lawyers…

Contributor:

Oyneg Shabes Archive

Places:

Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Community, Fascism, Jewish identity, Jewish quarters, Politics

Categories:

Historical writing, Firsthand accounts, Political Culture
A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…

Contributor:

Zelig Kalmanovitch

Places:

Vilna, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Jewish identity, Genocide, Death

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Historical writing
The Eastern European Era in Jewish History
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We Jews, the first nation in the world that began not only to mark but also to appraise and to judge the generations, evaluate eras on the basis of different criteria, namely, how much refinement is…

Contributor:

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Date:

1945

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Ashkenazi, Assimilation, Sephardi, Zionism

Categories:

Historical writing