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The night draws in around my eyes
Its ring of haze.
My pulse has sent my blood into a blaze
Though all about me a gray coldness lies.
O God, that I by living day
Should dream I’m dead,
Drink it in…
Contributor:
Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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In these days when Jews are being killed in Palestine, I chose to go to Grenadierstrasse—not to Jerusalem. I had the feeling it was better to be with the bereaved than the dead. I paid a condolence…
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Joseph Roth
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1929
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Vilna, my great matriarch, an established Jewish city,
Jerusalem of the Exile, an ancient nation’s consolation in the north!
This [poem] is your patched kerchief, like the roof of the old synagogue,…
Contributor:
Zalman Shneour
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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Max Liebermann
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Munich, Germany
Date:
1879
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Our friend’s devotion to Spinozism is not to be seen as a mere hypothesis (as the Patriarch in Nathan puts it), postulated simply in order to discuss its pros and cons. Herr Jacobi, a man of…
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Moses Mendelssohn
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1786
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Having laid out for the reader my thoughts about religion, revelation, and faith/belief, their manifold aim and their various components, I now consider…
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Saul Ascher
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1792
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There is no doubt, then, that the One Who Has Graced Man With Understanding has implanted in his heart the methods for becoming wise, and established for him upright rules and laws by means of which…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1761
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We, the entire assembly of the congregation of Israel, believe that the Torah that is in our possession today is exactly the same as was written by Moses our master, peace be on him. From then until…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1783
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But I want to go on recounting how the Prague movement developed, and what made the revolution, which brought so many impressive, great, and noble things to light everywhere, made everything in Prague…
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Moritz Hartmann
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Stuttgart, Germany
Date:
1874
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Gadhi, A PariaMaja, his WifeBenassar, Indian Attendant
Contributor:
Michael Beer
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1823