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We want to scrape off the eggshells of the ghetto and live as children of the present in the midst of German intellectual life, but without breaking with our past and shaking off the legitimate…
Contributor:
Eugen Fuchs
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1912
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The great controversy in Bohemia surrounding the language legislation shows Austrian Jews in a strange position. They go along loyally with those who only yesterday had been their fiercest enemies—and…
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Theodor Herzl
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1897
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We recently received from Vienna the new newspaper of the “Zionists,” Die Welt. It appeared on the eve of the holiday of the Feast of Weeks, which reminds us more than any other holiday that it was…
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Protestrabiner
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1897
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I want to profess straight off that I am a Jew. Does it require justification if I write in a spirit other than that of defending the Jews? Many of my fellow tribesmen know themselves only as Germans…
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Walter Rathenau
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1897
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But you, West Slavic Jews, you who are so proud of your intelligence and education, you who are so proud of the sciences that you tend like exotic plants [ . . . ] I ask whether you are so…
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David Kuh
Places:
Budapest, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1844
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This illustration depicts three Polish Jewish soldiers taking part in the Polish uprising of 1830 and 1831. The rendering of an “Israelite National Guard in Warsaw” alongside solemn, patriotic music…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1831