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Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with Patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also…
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Boston, United States of America
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1915
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But look, girl, if you so rarely find the opportunity to take a book into your hand, at least make a point of reading good books, not such kitsch as the Spinoza novel you have just sent me. Why do…
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Berlin, Germany
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1916
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At midnight a soft hand touched me: “Get up.” I stepped outside the silent sleeping barracks and saw: Azrael, the angel who reigns over the dead rushed down from the night firmament, all revenge…
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Arnold Zweig
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France, France
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1916
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I have noticed the change of the word “Oriental” to “Sephardi” in the masthead of the latest issue of the journal [La Amerika], “Organ of the Judeo-Sephardi (and no longer Oriental) Colony of America…
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Ben-Sion Behar
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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The “kindergarten” as a corridor to the salon of education, as a foundation for the tower of learning, has received particular attention among all civilized peoples, and all the more so does it…
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Yitsḥak Alterman
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917
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Society of “Hebrew Language Lovers” [Ḥoveve sefat ‘ever]Moscow BranchMaruseyka, 10 Kosmodimian AlleyTelephone: 180-53Moscow, 24 Adar 5677 [March 18, 1917]To Mr. Ḥ.N. Bialik in Odessa,Honored Friend!Th…
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Shoshana Persits
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1917
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[ . . . ] In the country as well as in the town, I lived in a petty-bourgeois environment where the principal effort was directed toward acquisition. In this respect, I cut myself off both from the…
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Leon Trotsky
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Alma Ata, USSR (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Büyükada, Turkey
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1929
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A letter from Zuckerman, the commissioner, evidently written by an agitated hand. It had come from Brest Litovsk bringing the news of horror. He had been in Pinsk and…
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Boris D. Bogen
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Los Angeles, United States of America
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1930
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Seven versts from Kaunas stood the oldest fortress in Lithuania. After the war, it was all battered and shot up. Bricks and scraps of iron lay strewn about the place, which had once stored weapons and…
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Khane
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Kovno, Lithuania (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1932
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Even in the past, some thirty to forty years ago, when Jewish life in Russia was still very conservative, there was a difference between those cities and towns located…
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Meir Berlin
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1933