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Paris, Tuesday, May 25, 1926, half past three in the afternoon. The car in which I had suddenly found myself honked and barely managed to drive through the dense throng, with people screaming on all…
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Sholem Schwartzbard
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Berchères La Maingot, France (Berchères-la-Maingot, France)
Date:
1933
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Anti-Semitism in my infancy, had its compensations, for being confined practically to children (I speak of anti-Semitism not as a subjective attitude but in its…
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William Goldman
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Vienna, Nazi Germany (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1940
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I am in hiding in a loft over a stable, in a village, with good people. The risk of death hovers over me, as it does over all Jews these days, and the slightest lapse of vigilance on my…
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Baruch Milch
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General Government (Poland)
Date:
1943
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After having arranged for fresh provisions and all kinds of refreshments, we set sail again, sailing away from land. Due to the wind’s silence, we proceeded into the sea without sailing, drifting for…
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Abraham Levie
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1750
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As the Territorial Organization Information Bureau in Warsaw, 10 Marianka Street, writes in the newspapers that those wanting to go to America should go to their colonies in the state of Texas, as…
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Moishe Opotowski
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1907
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A letter from Zuckerman, the commissioner, evidently written by an agitated hand. It had come from Brest Litovsk bringing the news of horror. He had been in Pinsk and…
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Boris D. Bogen
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1930
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Seven versts from Kaunas stood the oldest fortress in Lithuania. After the war, it was all battered and shot up. Bricks and scraps of iron lay strewn about the place, which had once stored weapons and…
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Khane
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Kovno, Lithuania (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1932
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In the year 5289 (1528/29), the holy martyrs of Pösing, 36 souls—men and women, youths and young girls—were arrested because of a false accusation made by a mamzer, and they died for the…
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Josel of Rosheim
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Holy Roman Empire (Alsace, France)
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1551/2
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So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who lived in the same town with Naboth. In the letters she wrote as follows:…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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Greetings, Islah.
Now, I shall dispatch legumes tomorrow. Meet the boat tomorrow on Sabbath. Lest, if they get lost, by the life of YHH, I swear that I will take your life. Do not rely on Meshullemeth…
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
Date:
ca. 475 BCE