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Persecution because of a person’s religious observance is reprehensible, even despicable, though still somewhat understandable. What is understandable—I am not saying: justifiable—is that zealots who…
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Mozes Henriquez Pimentel
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1891
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On the sixth and seventh of April a pogrom took place in Kishinev! A band of Christians attacked the Jewish townspeople and with the greatest cruelty they…
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Central Committee of the Bund
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1903
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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
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In many shtetls throughout Podolye and Volhynia we often find a mound next to the synagogue. Surrounded by a traditional cemetery fence, the mound is known as the Grave for the Bride and Groom. And…
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S. An-ski
Places:
Russian Empire (Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
1912–1913