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There is no room for Ghetto Judaism in America. Look at any of the creeds and churches in our free land! They are all more tolerant, more liberal, more humane and sympathetic in their mutual relations…
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Kaufmann Kohler
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1911
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This is perhaps the grimmest, and surely the holiest task we have faced since D-Day. Here before us lie the bodies of…
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Roland Gittelsohn
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Iwo Jima, Japan
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1945
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These letters have been selected from thousands in a similar vein which it has been the privilege of the editor to peruse. They were forwarded to him from all sections of the country. The…
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Isaac E. Rontch
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New York, United States of America
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1945
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Nothing contributes more to the elegance and refinement of a lady’s appearance than delicate hands; and it is surprising how much it is in the power of all, by proper care and attention, to…
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Judith Cohen Montefiore
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1846
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Get a calf’s head, with the skin on, but cleaned from the hair. Half boil it; take all the meat off in square pieces; break the bones of the head, and boil them in some good veal and…
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Esther Levy
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1871
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[ . . . ] The two worlds, in my childhood, were not really separate. The synagogue in Graham Street, to which we walked across the Meadows every Saturday morning, was as much a part of the Edinburgh…
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David Daiches
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
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1956
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When first touched by memory, I found myself already in the midst of [ . . . ] ominous twilights which came intermittently, in series, and have stayed with me as the keenest memory of childhood.
Our…
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Judd L. Teller
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New York, United States of America
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1949
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In Brownsville tenements the kitchen is always the largest room and the center of the household. As a child I felt that we lived in a kitchen to which four other rooms were annexed. My mother, a “home…
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Alfred Kazin
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New York, United States of America
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1951
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The Readers Digest Magazine broke the American silence attending the massacre of the Jews in February, 1943. It printed my article called “Remember Us,” based on Dr. [Hayim] Greenberg’s data. Reading…
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Ben Hecht
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New York, United States of America
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1954
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The most terrible thing of all, somehow, was that at Brzezinka the sun was bright and warm, the rows of graceful poplars were lovely to look upon and on the grass near the gates children played.
It…
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A. M. Rosenthal
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1958