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Post-War Years 1945–1954
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The months of which I am about to write are probably amongst the most painful in my whole life; I interrupted my work on the book for a long time trying to summon up the courage to embark on this…

Contributor:

Ilya Ehrenburg

Places:

USSR (Russia)

Date:

1966

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Socialism, Jewish identity, Politics, Memory

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Historical writing
Note on the Emancipation of the Jews of Russia
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For the purposes of preparing for this emancipation, four measures are proposed: 1) the establishment of a Jewish newspaper in Russian; 2) the establishment of a scholarly literary journal in Yiddish…

Contributor:

Emmanuil Borisovich Levin

Places:

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1859

Subjects:

Emancipation, Politics, Antisemitism, Education, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Political Culture
Tolstoy and the Jews
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I have often been asked, and still am asked, whether I know from my frequent conversations with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy about his attitudes toward the Jews. I am asked whether I spoke with him on…

Contributor:

Ilya Ginzburg

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Writing, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Antisemitism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts