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In 1905 a group of Jewish Social Democrats left the party in Galicia in order to found their own organization of Jewish Social Democratic workers. The executive of the international Social Democratic…
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Otto Bauer
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1907
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The world is full of armies.
But that is not what will kill us.
Béla Balázs
If there is culture today, it can only be an aesthetic culture. If one wants to raise seriously the question whether there…
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Georg Lukács
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1910
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Religious forces are in fact only transfigured collective forces, that is, moral forces; they are made of ideas and feelings that the…
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Émile Durkheim
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Paris, France
Date:
1911
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Before I come to the main subject of my pamphlet, I would like briefly to consider why the Jewish socialists deserted the Jewish masses and what is the current state of mind of a substantial segment…
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Pavel Axelrod
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1882
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A perfumelike smell, which came from the low clumps of acacia trees, or “mimosas,” as some liked to call them, scented the air of the small Jewish colony in southern Palestine. In the expanse of sky…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1910
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It was a winter day. The streets of Vienna were dirty and shrouded with the mud of the snows that were falling, only to be melted immediately under the feet of the passersby. A dense and heavy smoke…
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B. ha-Kohen
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Ottoman Empire (Türkiye, Turkey)
Date:
1910
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“I am Mother of all the tribe,” she said with dignity. “These”—she indicated the women about her—“are mothers of the clans. You may speak—openly. Why is the birth of a male child cause for…
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Miriam Michelson
Places:
San Francisco, United States of America
Date:
1912
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“Meanwhile months and years disappeared. At twenty-eight I was still without a husband, still an eligible virgin . . . It was spring—free, warm. My heart ached so, I thought I’d go crazy . . . the…
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Yente Serdatsky
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1913
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Four weeks before the completion of the new twelve-story addition the store advertised for two hundred experienced saleswomen. Rachel Wiletzky, entering the superintendent’s office after a wait of…
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Edna Ferber
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1918
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Quick! Help! Save a poor girl!
A Hebrew servant girl screamed:
Help me, merciful people, hurry
and save me from this racing stag
who runs with such a fury.
Free my hands from his horns!
The woman…
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Sarah Shapira
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1886