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The Writing on the Wall: Almstadtstrasse (Formerly Grenadierstrasse 7): Slide Projection of Former Hebrew Bookstore, Berlin (1930)
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In The Writing on the Wall, Attie brought the ghosts of pre-World War II Jewish life in Berlin temporarily to life by projecting black-and-white slides of Jewish schools, bookstores, kosher butchers…

Contributor:

Shimon Attie

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1993

Subjects:

Photography, Conceptualism, Jewish identity, Holocaust, Memory

Categories:

Photography, Historical writing
Photograph of blank city wall with projection of storefront over it and car in foreground.
Chabibi
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Chabibi my vaybl be on your guard when you meet a goy he likes you nisht be on your guard when you meet a goy he likes you be on your guard when you meet a yid he smells you chassids…

Contributor:

Esther Dischereit

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1996

Subjects:

Gentiles, Yiddish, Assimilation, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry
All of the Books That Have Arrived at the Editor’s Desk
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    Future [Tsukunft], first compilation. Published by Tsukunft, St. Petersburg (1913). Ben-Ami, Big Fayvl and Little Fayvl (a short story). Published by Far undzere kinder…

Contributor:

Boris Kletzkin

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Writing, Yiddish, Jewish languages, Poetry, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Lists & catalogues
Powers of Descent and Powers of Ascent
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[ . . . ] Why does the present Jewish fate appear so strongly connected to our entire past and to all that is currently unfolding before our eyes? At times it seemed that many distinct events stood…

Contributor:

Oskar Yeshayahu Wolfsberg

Places:

Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Nazis, Antisemitism, Politics, Zionism, Fascism

Categories:

Political Culture