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Now, more than at any time in the history of our people, humor has a place in Jewish life. I was delighted to find the Jewish Publication Society in agreement with me that at the present time…
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Samuel Felix Mendelsohn
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1941
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He had traveled to Germany once, where he visited a displaced-persons camp. He was to meet Party members in one of the small Bavarian towns, and when he arrived at the “camp,” it turned out to be a…
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Natan Shaḥam
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1948
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[ . . . ] The past two years of the Hitler regime (1938–1939) have led many people to the impression that this is the beginning of the destruction of European…
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Simon Dubnov
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Riga, USSR (Riga, Latvia)
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1939
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When I stand before you here, Judges of Israel, to lead the Prosecution of Adolf Eichmann, I am not standing alone. With me are six million accusers. But they cannot rise to their…
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Gideon Hausner
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1961
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The meaning of the Jewish revolution is contained in one word—independence! Independence for the Jewish people in its homeland! Dependence is not merely political or economic; it is also moral…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1944
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Today we are proud to stand as “am echad,” one people united in solidarity with the people of Darfur, victims of a government-sponsored genocide. In an extraordinarily unified effort, the leaders of…
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David A. Harris, Ruth Messinger
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2005
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The Führer inquires of General Franco, “Comrade, how did you solve the Jewish problem?”
Franco answers, “I instituted the yellow badge.”
“That’s nothing,” says Hitler. “I imposed tributes…
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Shimon Huberband
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1941
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With the inevitable end of Hitler, the struggle begins, not of tank and plane, but of heart and soul and brain to forge a world in which humanity may live in peace. This new world must be based on the…
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American Jewish Committee
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New York, United States of America
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1944
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In haste
Quickly came the Americans.
This Bread
These emaciated faces
Of our ancestors in panic
From Hitler
All who are hungry may they walk and fear
All who are in need flee in trembling.
This…
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Nissim ben Shimon
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Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco (Rabat, Morocco)
Date:
1943
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We Jews who live in the staid serenity of America have failed to grasp the immensity of the tragedy which has befallen our people and this failure is perhaps the greatest part of the tragedy. Were the…
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Noah Golinkin, Jerome Lipnick, M. Bertram Sachs
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943