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[ . . . ] In the country as well as in the town, I lived in a petty-bourgeois environment where the principal effort was directed toward acquisition. In this respect, I cut myself off both from the…
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Leon Trotsky
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Alma Ata, USSR (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Büyükada, Turkey
Date:
1929
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Brothers, the great necessity and the significant need for the publication of newspapers in [any] state are well known in all countries. It is common knowledge. And you will not find one opposing…
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Yeshurun
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Baghdad, British Mandate Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1921
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“Bar Kokhba” Jewish SocietyCairo, EgyptFounded the 1st of Adar I 5657February 1897Central HeadquartersMr. Theodor HerzlEditor of the “Neue Freie Presse”ViennaSir, dear coreligionist in your Jewish…
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Bar Kokhba Jewish Society
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Egypt, Egypt)
Date:
1897
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Before we come to the determination of our tasks, we would like to pause for a while to consider the situation of the present moment. We are experiencing here in Palestine a relatively quiet…
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1906
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Dear colleague:
I received your letter asking me to send you clear information about the political situation, notably in regard to the Jewish national movement.
Do you not believe that it is still…
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Sam Lévy
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1908
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One of our greatest sins in the eyes of the Jewish bourgeoisie has been that in the course of the thirty-five years of our existence as a party we have not ceased to defend the simple idea that we…
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Henryk Erlich
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1933
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The Secretary
Zionist Organisation
London
Baghdad, 8th September 1922
Dear Sir,
I have the pleasure to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 20th July 1922. It is needless to say that I greatly…
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Menahem Salih Daniel
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Baghdad, British Mandate Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1922
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The renaissance of the Maccabean festival, which began with the onset of modern nationalism, signified a great revolution in Jewish thinking. The Jew aspired to leave behind the unworthy life of exile…
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Robert Weltsch
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
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George Steiner
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1966
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Georgia
City of Savannah
Sheftall Sheftall of the said city, being duly sworn, saith:
That some time in the latter part of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, or the beginning of…
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Sheftall Sheftall
Places:
Savannah, United States of America
Date:
1832