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The degradation took place Saturday, the 5th of January. I underwent the horrible torture without weakness.
Before the ceremony, I waited for an hour in the hall of the garrison…
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Alfred Dreyfus
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Devil's Island, French Guyana (Devil's Island, Guyana)
Date:
1895
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May the Almighty make His vaporous dew fall, for the benefit of His people and His servants, and may He, in His mercy, restore the souls to the deceased. Let him who understands hear, and let him who…
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Sa‘id Tsa‘di
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Sanaʽa, Qasimid State (Sanaa, Yemen)
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ca. 1720
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Once Clara asked me, “How come your family emigrated to Canada, of all places? I thought the Jews went to New York.”
I was born Canadian, I explained, because my grandfather, a ritual slaughterer, was…
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Mordecai Richler
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Montreal, Canada
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1997
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Lasik’s downfall did not come because of his name. It was only because of that sigh. Perhaps it was not even the sigh, but rather the economic situation, or the hot weather, or perhaps even certain…
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Ilya Ehrenburg
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Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Paris, France
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1928
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Antisemitism is not an Argentine disgrace; we did not invent it. Other countries preceded us. Not even the far-right Tacuara Nationalist Movement of the 1960s invented it. Before that, there was the…
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Samuel Tarnopolsky
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1969
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Lisbon, July 26. Here three rich Portuguese were detained on suspicion of secretly having practiced their faith. And their lives would have been spared if, God forbid, they would have…
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Moses Bar Abraham
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1686–1687
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I would like to say that this meeting is a meeting of the members of the Executive Committee and of the Advisory Council of the Kehillah. It is not a meeting that is open to the public or to the press…
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Judah L. Magnes
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1914
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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg. Economic reforms enacted by Karl Alexander (and informed by…
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Artist Unknown
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Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1738
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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg. Economic reforms enacted by Karl Alexander (and informed by…
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Jacob Gottlieb Thelot, Lucas Conrad Pfandzelt
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Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)
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1738
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[Fabres alone]Fabres [Standing, reading the newspaper La Libre parole whose title appears in such big letters that it can be seen by the audience]:“Our information was confirmed in…
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Jacques Loria
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Tatar-Bazardjik, Ottoman Empire (Pazardzhik, Bulgaria)
Date:
1903