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The events of 1968 therefore came as a shock to me. [ . . . ]
One could of course continue to claim that it was not the people but only those horrible communists, those monstrous rulers, who with…
One of our greatest sins in the eyes of the Jewish bourgeoisie has been that in the course of the thirty-five years of our existence as a party we have not ceased to defend the simple idea that we…
Spitting poison and frothing at the mouthHe spits, snorts and spluttersAnd writes that I am a butcherA yid and bolshevikJewboy, bacillusA baboon and a SkamandriteThat I sell out the FatherlandThat I…
From the cradle to the grave,
A heavy burden crushes us . . .
Constrains the mind, destroys our strength,
Wreathes our brow with thorns . . .
And yet, with amazing power
Our lips run along the…
One may think about Zionism as one wishes: one may consider it an aberration or an idea that has a claim on the future; one may regard it from the heights of a fantastical cosmopolitanism as a…
Aleksander Lesser’s most famous painting is The Funeral of the Five Victims, which depicts the public funeral of five men shot by the Russian military on March 2, 1861, during a rally calling for…
Jewish nationalism is a product of the nationalist current engulfing all of humanity; it is an echo, a reflection, and an imitation of a movement occurring in a broader theater. Various nations are…
We [of the Polish weekly journal Jutrzenka (Dawn), October 25, 1861] have already had the opportunity to mention a number of periodicals devoted entirely to Jewish affairs. We have also named three…
I prefer to speak of Poland and the Jews rather than Poles and Jews, the latter threatening to limit my freedom of movement within the present subject-matter. Poland and the Jews leaves ample room for…
Assimilation, taken literally, means making things similar to each other, and in this concrete instance refers to a desire for the assimilation of Jews in terms of language, culture, and customs to…