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Confronted by difficult problems after 1945 (reconstruction of a community life after the physical and material losses of the Second World War, integration of successive and ever more numerous waves…
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Nelly Gutman
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Paris, France
Date:
1984
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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…
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Stanisław Krajewski
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Kraków, Poland
Date:
2002
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“As you see me, I’m on my way to Corfu . . . for the present. The season begins before times become intolerable for me at the Ehrenberg house.”
“No one is demanding,” replied Frau Ehrenberg gently,…
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Arthur Schnitzler
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1908
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These last words—spoken in all seriousness—completely confused Heinz. He thought he hadn’t heard right.
“Sorry—What do you have?”
“Patrol duty—Jacob can take care of the money now; you’ve seen that…
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Sammy Gronemann
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1918
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It is plain for all to see, sir, that our youth is abandoning our language—but why? Because in their eyes it is a dead and useless tongue. All our efforts to make them appreciate the importance of the…
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
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Paris, France
Date:
1880
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Two years ago, during a committee meeting at the Congress in Basle, I said: “We must think of creating once again a Jewry of muscles.”
Once again! For history is our witness that such a Jewry had…
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Max Nordau
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
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1903
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Jewish statistics began 3,000 years ago. But for the first time since the dispersion of the Jewish people an organization has been formed in their midst that has set itself the goal to produce a…
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Alfred Nossig
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1903
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I have often been asked, and still am asked, whether I know from my frequent conversations with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy about his attitudes toward the Jews. I am asked whether I spoke with him on…
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Ilya Ginzburg
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1910
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A healthy mind lives in a healthy body!This old Latin adage never received proper attention among us Jews, although we do not doubt its truth. Accepted in theory, its thought did not…
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Hermann Jalowicz
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1900
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As the Territorial Organization Information Bureau in Warsaw, 10 Marianka Street, writes in the newspapers that those wanting to go to America should go to their colonies in the state of Texas, as…
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Moishe Opotowski
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1907