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Chapters of My Autobiography
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The story of my life is only exceptional in that it represents a great change of identity in the heart of the Jewish people. [ . . . ] I was born a Jewish Algerian—a French citizen to boot—and during…

Contributor:

Léon Ashkenazi

Places:

Orsay, France

Date:

1967

Subjects:

Modernity, Sephardic, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish identity, Humanistic Judaism

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage, (Auto)biography
A Bintel Brief
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Dear Editor,I am a Russian revolutionist and a freethinker. Here in America I became acquainted with a girl who is also a freethinker. We decided to marry, but the problem is that she has Orthodox…

Contributor:

The Forward

Places:

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

Date:

1906

Subjects:

Marriage, Orthodox Judaism, Secular Judaism, Family, Modernity

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage, Letters