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A Proposal
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It is the same goal that the praiseworthy and renowned Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith [Central-Verein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens] has set itself for years and…

Contributor:

Martin Phillipson

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1900

Subjects:

Communal organizations, Jewish identity, Interfaith relations, Social justice, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture
Darwinian
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The evolution of the Hanukkah candelabra of the Pinne (Pniewy, Poland, near Posen) goatskin dealer Cohn into the Christmas tree of Conrad the businessman on Tiergartenstrasse (Berlin W.), satirizes…

Contributor:

Max Jungmann

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1904

Subjects:

Humor, Satire, Assimilation, Interfaith relations, Jewish identity

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art
Four images of trees resembling candelabra and then a fir tree, with German text above and below.
Announcement Establishing the Zentralverein Organization
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We received the following appeal addressed to the German citizens of Jewish faith with the request to publish it: For the past two decades, a movement has disquieted our fatherland whose ultimate…

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Central Union of the German Citizens of the Jewish Faith

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1893

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Social justice, Antisemitism, Assimilation, Interfaith relations

Categories:

Political Culture
On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew
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Not seldom, when in conversation my partner draws me into a plural—that is, as soon as he includes my person in whatever connection and says to me: “We Jews . . .”—I feel a not exactly tormenting, but…

Contributor:

Jean Améry

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Date:

1966

Subjects:

Theology, Jewish identity, Holocaust, Christianity, Interfaith relations

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries