Showing Results 4491 - 4500 of 5408
Restricted
Text
To define the characteristics of antisemitism it is good to proceed on two fronts: i.e., to examine its development externally in a purely empirical manner and thereby find its…
Contributor:
Felix Weltsch
Places:
Prague, Czechoslovakia (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1931
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Hatred can never be good. (Spinoza, Ethics)
The spirit of politics has perhaps never before embraced people as tightly as today. There is an increase in social awareness. The class division of society…
Contributor:
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1932
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Warsaw, October 17, 1932
Dear friend S. Niger,
When we speak about left and right, we should, first of all, enclose both words in thick quotation marks, and then we have to remember that true left…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1932
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Today in Germany it seems Jewish assimilation must declare its bankruptcy. The general social antisemitism and its official legitimation affects in the first instance assimilated Jews, who can no…
Contributor:
Hannah Arendt
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1933
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
For a half-millennium the Jew, rejected by the world, had secluded himself within ghetto walls, unconcerned with what lay without. But the day came when the world…
Contributor:
Milton Steinberg
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1934
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Human wisdom has limits—stupidity has none.
God created a world with gifts and blessings for all: earth and water, sun and air in plenty, rye and wheat in abundance, a potato for everyone, a roof…
Contributor:
Chaim Lieberman
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
[ . . . ] 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:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Our generation came to this country from lands where Jewish life had been lived within its own boundaries, and where our communal leaders had instilled in us a sense of responsibility to ensure that…
Contributor:
Leibush Lehrer
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
ca. 1939
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The leader and the soul of Iskra was Lenin. And although he was surrounded by a group of brilliant writers and first-class leaders (indeed, all enjoyed equal rights in a…
Contributor:
Vladimir Medem
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Mariette was preparing for her first communion. This was serious:
“The most beautiful day of my life, you understand!”
I didn’t understand.
“There’ll be bells ringing and music and lights…
Contributor:
Edmond Fleg
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1926