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Announcement Establishing the Zentralverein Organization
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We received the following appeal addressed to the German citizens of Jewish faith with the request to publish it: For the past two decades, a movement has disquieted our fatherland whose ultimate…

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Central Union of the German Citizens of the Jewish Faith

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1893

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Social justice, Antisemitism, Assimilation, Interfaith relations

Categories:

Political Culture
On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew
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Not seldom, when in conversation my partner draws me into a plural—that is, as soon as he includes my person in whatever connection and says to me: “We Jews . . .”—I feel a not exactly tormenting, but…

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Jean Améry

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Date:

1966

Subjects:

Theology, Jewish identity, Holocaust, Christianity, Interfaith relations

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
A Proposal
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It is the same goal that the praiseworthy and renowned Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith [Central-Verein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens] has set itself for years and…

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Martin Phillipson

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1900

Subjects:

Communal organizations, Jewish identity, Interfaith relations, Social justice, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture