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Do you think there is a Jewish problem? If yes, in what sense? Do you care about it?
Have you had any experience with Jews? What kind? Do you remember names of persons involved and other specific data…
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Theodor Adorno
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1950
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This happened in the city of Madrid late at night, at the hour when nobody was in the streets, when all people were in bed resting from the exhaustion of the previous day. Suddenly, there was a knock…
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Unknown
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Turnu-Severin, Kingdom of Romania (Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania)
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1885
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One afternoon a friend from class asked me a religious question. After I answered her, she remarked that it was curious that our teacher had not been able to answer the same question. “Don’t be so…
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Reina ha-Kohen
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1908
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To make the history of antisemitism complete, omitting none of the manifestations of this sentiment and following its divers phases and modifications, it is necessary to go into the history of Israel…
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Bernard Lazare
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Paris, France
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1894
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One hundred and odd years ago, the walls that imprisoned us Jews in a mental ghetto fell, torn down by Christian advocates of human rights who are assured of our eternal gratitude. After having been…
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Moritz Goldstein
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Berlin, Germany
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1912
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[Gordon and Zhivago were on their way home in the evening. The sun was going down.] In one village [they passed through] they saw a young Cossack surrounded by a crowd…
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Boris Pasternak
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Peredelkino, USSR (Novo-Peredelkino, Russia)
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1956
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In the year 1885, a few days after the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, it began to rain in the plains surrounding the rivers Rednitz and Pegnitz and continued to do so almost…
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Jakob Wasserman
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Munich, Germany
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1897
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“Consummatum est!” I could exclaim on January 1, 1876.The minister [Jozsef Eötvös] frivolously deceived me. His promise turned out to be a premeditated lie. Scorn and sarcasm were his response when I…
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Ignác Goldziher
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
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1890
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The Jewish question may be resolved through a new philosophical synthesis and a true reform of moral and religious life for Jews and Christians alike. Just as we must admit that we need reforms across…
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Viktor Vohryzek
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Pardubice, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Pardubice, Czech Republic)
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1904
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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…
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Peretz Opoczynski
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1941