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I have always had the illusion that my face did not clearly betray the calumny of my Jewish heritage. I have always taken care to conceal carefully the bitter secret that my father was a rabbi and my…
Whereas the legislation regarding linguistic rights currently being considered by the Duma directly opposes the interests of the proletariat and the masses of the Jewish nation; and whereas this…
I want to profess straight off that I am a Jew. Does it require justification if I write in a spirit other than that of defending the Jews? Many of my fellow tribesmen know themselves only as Germans…
Motivated by the book by Mrs. R. Centnerszwerowa: There is a heated struggle going on about public schooling in the [Polish] Kingdom [of the Russian Empire]. Various speakers at a range of meetings…
This one painting conveys many messages about the benefits of integration and emancipation as well as the inner conflicts they provoked.
This will be the first of my addresses before the Zionist Congresses to deal not with the various questions involved in the upbuilding of Palestine but with the significance of…
Today in Germany it seems Jewish assimilation must declare its bankruptcy. The general social antisemitism and its official legitimation affects in the first instance assimilated Jews, who can no…
For a half-millennium the Jew, rejected by the world, had secluded himself within ghetto walls, unconcerned with what lay without. But the day came when the world…
The train pulls up to the platform, steaming and boiling like a samovar.
Lazar is standing on the platform—short, glowing, joyful—waving his dirty handkerchief at the cars.
The train is on its way to…
“No,” said Golder.
He moved the shade with a brusque gesture, so that the lamp light fell full on the features of Simon Marcus, who sat opposite him, at the other side of the table. For a…