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As I informed you in yesterday’s cable, hearings on the cause célèbre that is stirring up all of Palestine have begun before the Grand Sanhedrin in Jerusalem.
The issue is really quite…
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Jacques Bahar
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1897
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This preface represents not a collated anthology but is rather the result of forgetfulness on my part, insofar as I have been terse in the words I have written, which place on record that…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)
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1775
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Not seldom, when in conversation my partner draws me into a plural—that is, as soon as he includes my person in whatever connection and says to me: “We Jews . . .”—I feel a not exactly tormenting, but…
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Jean Améry
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1966
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“You found the victim?”
She nodded.
“Was she conscious at the time?”
“Yes. Baruch Hashem.”
“Pardon?”
“Nothing. Mrs. Adler was conscious.”
“That’s fine,” Decker said. He faced the uniforms. “Cordon off…
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Faye Kellerman
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1986
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He strolled along the bank of the Vistula, thinking, “Today she will come.”
And so thinking, he saw it all in the most vivid colors: He is sitting on the bed in his room, in the darkness, waiting…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1903
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We received the following appeal addressed to the German citizens of Jewish faith with the request to publish it:
For the past two decades, a movement has disquieted our fatherland whose ultimate…
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Central Union of the German Citizens of the Jewish Faith
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Berlin, Germany
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1893
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It is my pleasant duty, as chairman of the local committee, to extend to you all a hearty welcome to our city and to our Congress, the first Jewish Women’s Congress. It was with some misgiving that I…
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Hannah Solomon
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Chicago, United States of America
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1893
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I trust that none of my remarks will be understood to say that assimilation is not now, or has not always been, a great threat to the Jewish group. In a sense, the problem of assimilation is as old as…
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Gerson D. Cohen
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Brookline, United States of America
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1966
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On the first day they sailed, the Pechofs saw the film called Argentina, the Promised Land. The screen had been divided into four parts like a coat of arms, and they saw wheat fields, cows in profile…
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Mario Szichman
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1971
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The body and face of the colonized are not a pretty sight. It is not without damage that one carries the weight of such historical misfortune. If the colonizer’s face…
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Albert Memmi
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Paris, France
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1957