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Mid-Century: An Anthology of Jewish Life and Culture in Our Times
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In the tercentenary year of Jewish settlement in America, this volume is offered as evidence that the past decade—a mid-century point—has seen the publication of some of the most…

Contributor:

Harold U. Ribalow

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Date:

1955

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Christian-Jewish relations, Writing, Art, Cities, Anthologies

Categories:

Anthologies
The Largest Mill in the Orient (Postcard)
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When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…

Contributor:

Vitaliano Poselli

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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

ca. 1900–1912

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Sephardi, Christian-Jewish relations, Cities, Labor, Architecture

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Architecture
Large symmetrical, rectangular building next to body of water.
About Jews
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Dark-faced foreigners have flooded the city. They go about rushing through the boulevards, but in the suburbs they already stop to congregate, talk in a strong and loud voice, heavily gesticulating. I…

Contributor:

Sándor Bródy

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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Cities, Nationalism, Christian-Jewish relations, Death, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts
Montreal
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The theater troupe at the Saidye Bronfman Centre decided to practice a bit of outreach to the city’s French Canadian majority by staging a play by the Québécois dramatist Michel Tremblay. It wouldn’t…

Contributor:

Alan M. Tigay

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Date:

1993

Subjects:

Travel, Community, Christian-Jewish relations, Cities, Jewish identity

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Firsthand accounts, Travel Writing, Historical writing