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Marsch der Israelitischen national Garde in Warschau
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This illustration depicts three Polish Jewish soldiers taking part in the Polish uprising of 1830 and 1831. The rendering of an “Israelite National Guard in Warsaw” alongside solemn, patriotic music…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

ca. 1831

Subjects:

Music, Assimilation, Conscription, War, Nationalism, Performing arts

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music
Page with drawing of three uniformed men holding bayonets and German headings above and below.
The Future of the Jews: A Response to Werner Sombart
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We want to scrape off the eggshells of the ghetto and live as children of the present in the midst of German intellectual life, but without breaking with our past and shaking off the legitimate…

Contributor:

Eugen Fuchs

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Assimilation, Community, Nationalism, Politics

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Political Culture
Hear, O Israel!
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I want to profess straight off that I am a Jew. Does it require justification if I write in a spirit other than that of defending the Jews? Many of my fellow tribesmen know themselves only as Germans…

Contributor:

Walter Rathenau

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Assimilation, Nationalism, Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Journalism

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Journalism, Firsthand accounts
Protest against Zionism
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We recently received from Vienna the new newspaper of the “Zionists,” Die Welt. It appeared on the eve of the holiday of the Feast of Weeks, which reminds us more than any other holiday that it was…

Contributor:

Protestrabiner

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Zionism, Assimilation, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Exile, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand accounts