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To satisfy your doubt concerning my signature, I have to tell you, in all philosophical frankness, that I was born with a burning desire and the greatest curiosity to know, more as a way to get to…
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Joseph Attias
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Livorno, Kingdom of Italy (Livorno, Italy)
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1733
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Esteemed Friend and Editor:
Recently a friend of mine, who is a member of the Workmen’s Circle Chorus, visited, bringing with her the…
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J. Levitt
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1918
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Dear readers! I am giving you a rare and precious treasure, which has hitherto been lying in a library for three hundred years. Jews have always been thinking and talking about this treasure…
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Yudl Rosenberg
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909
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For the critic of the future remains the problem of estimating to what degree residence in America influenced the art of Charles Martin Loeffler and of Leo Ornstein. Patent enough to our own day is…
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Paul L. Rosenfeld
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1916
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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…
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Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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We are becoming so accustomed to the remarkable enterprise of the authorities of the Temple, East End Jewry’s playhouse in Commercial Road, that we cease to wonder at anything they now attempt in…
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London, United Kingdom
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1912
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23 October. The actors convince me by their presence time and again, to my consternation, that most of what I’ve written about them so far is wrong. It is wrong because I wrote about them with…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1911
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There are faces that God created to enchant you at first glance. Adore me, the face proclaims, and you adore it without knowing…
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Sholem Aleichem
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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Dedication to My Dearly Beloved Grandfather, Reb Mendalle Mocher SephorimTo my dear grandfather, greetings!Stempenyu, my first long novel, which I inscribe to you, is yours; not only because I have…
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Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1886