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Can Jews remain in East-Central Europe? That is the question.
Hungary has between eighty and a hundred thousand Jews, Romania about twenty thousand, the rest of the countries a few thousand each. Jews…
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György Konrád
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1991
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In their glory days during the Renaissance, the king’s fools occupied a privileged place at court: dressed in sumptuous garments comparable in every detail to those of the kingdom’s great, in scarlet…
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Pierre Birnbaum
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Paris, France
Date:
1992
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This rediscovery of Judaism at the end of the end of philosophy, at the tertium quid, the middle of ethics, occurs at the deepest difficulty of both philosophy and Judaism, where they are equally cast…
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Gillian Rose
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Oxford, United Kingdom
Date:
1992
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Jews are associated with liberalism the way the French are with wine: it is considered native to their region. […] As I use it, liberalism is a belief in…
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Ruth R. Wisse
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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These program notes were prepared for the Radical New Jewish music performances which were part of the ART PROJEKT Festival held in Munich in September of 1992.American New Music has always been noted…
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John Zorn, Marc Ribot
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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As we look around us in contemporary America, we see large numbers of “Jews” or persons of Jewish origin (many of whom shed their recognizably Jewish names) in such areas as law, medicine…
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Benjamin Harshav
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Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1993
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During my first few years as the lone Prog M. P., I found myself confronted by a series of vicious laws designed to undermine civil rights and to intensify discrimination…
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Helen Suzman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1993
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I—a Jewess—am by definition not a member of the species, or: why should a Jewess not have problems with public assistance and with her children? The postwar German Jew, to the extent that such a being…
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Esther Dischereit
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1994
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How many Jews are there in Poland? This seems a simple and reasonable question, but the answer depends to a great degree on who is asking whom, when, and why. This should not be surprising: in Poland…
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Konstanty Gebert
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Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1994
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Gradually we learned these things: The government of Sudan could not admit to helping Jews. Sudan, after all, was a friend of the other Arab nations, and there is fighting between Arabs and Jews…
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Sonia Levitin
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1987