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No Room in My Heart for Jewish Suffering
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But look, girl, if you so rarely find the opportunity to take a book into your hand, at least make a point of reading good books, not such kitsch as the Spinoza novel you have just sent me. Why do…

Contributor:

Rosa Luxemburg

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1916

Subjects:

Class, Social justice, Socialism, Jewish identity, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Political Culture
The Marriage of Regina
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The whole city was talking about Regina’s wedding. I should tell you first that Regina is one of our former students. People were saying, “Yes, Regina is à la franca” (the expression means “European…

Contributor:

Djamilé Douec

Places:

Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Marriage, Community, Class, Education, Women, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling
Letter to the Envoy Keller
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His princely Eminence has been pleased in his benevolence, while I am still confined to bed because of my illness to reveal to me sufficient to let me know that the matter has met with difficulties…

Contributor:

Joseph Süss Oppenheimer

Places:

Stuttgart, Holy Roman Empire (Stuttgart, Germany)

Date:

1735

Subjects:

Christian-Jewish relations, Class, Monarchy, Antisemitism, Politics, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters