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Letter to the Envoy Keller
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His princely Eminence has been pleased in his benevolence, while I am still confined to bed because of my illness to reveal to me sufficient to let me know that the matter has met with difficulties…

Contributor:

Joseph Süss Oppenheimer

Places:

Stuttgart, Holy Roman Empire (Stuttgart, Germany)

Date:

1735

Subjects:

Christian-Jewish relations, Class, Monarchy, Antisemitism, Politics, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter to Gershom Scholem
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Berlin-Grunewald Tauberstr. 16 February 26, 1970 Dear Mr. Scholem, Writing this letter does not come easily to me; hence the long delay. And now you know already that I have not been able to decide in…

Contributor:

Peter Szondi

Places:

Berlin, West Germany (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1970

Subjects:

Scholarship, Aliyah, Holocaust, Antisemitism, Letters, Education

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling
Assimilation and Anti-Semitism
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When an intimidated individual or a careerist among my brethren feels inclined or forced to identify himself as a son of his forefathers, then he usually describes himself—provided he was not baptized…

Contributor:

Albert Einstein

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Assimilation, Jewish identity, Race, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Letters, Firsthand accounts