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Galut
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The word “Galut” embraces a whole world of facts and ideas that have appeared with varying strength and clarity in every age of Jewish…

Contributor:

Yitshak Baer

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1936

Subjects:

Diaspora, Christian-Jewish relations, Zionism, Martyrdom, Antisemitism

Categories:

History, Historical Writing
Lament over the Jews of Kremzir
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So since we are in the midst of writing a song, We will write also about the destruction of the holy community of Kremzir, Even though this happened five years before, In the year 1643, on the 9th of…

Contributor:

Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi

Places:

Kremzir, Holy Roman Empire (Kroměříž, Czech Republic)

Date:

1648

Subjects:

Pogroms, Death, Martyrdom, Antisemitism, Messianism

Categories:

History, Poetry, Firsthand Accounts
On Our Movement in These Days
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Despair before loss. The first reaction in relation to our world movement and its status in wartime was among many…

Contributor:

Moshe Kroneh

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Zionism, Antisemitism, Violence, Martyrdom, Nazis

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
The Czech Transport: A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
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A day passed, and then a second and a third. Wednesday came, the ultimate deadline for the transport’s arrival. There were two obvious reason for the delay. First, it appeared that in addition to…

Contributor:

Zalmen Gradowski

Places:

Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)

Date:

1944

Subjects:

Holocaust, Antisemitism, Jewish quarters, Death, Martyrdom

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage