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The Invigoration of Western Jewishness
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The best of the Western Jews have gradually become used to talking about the existence of a Jewish people as if it were a logical and historically proven fact. But they have not yet arrived at the…

Contributor:

Fritz Kaufmann

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Nationalism, Jewish identity, Zionism, Class, Philosophy

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy
The Adventures of Augie March
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I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted…

Contributor:

Saul Bellow

Places:

New York City, United States of America

Date:

1953

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Family, Economic life, Philosophy, Class

Categories:

Fiction
Geneviève Straus Sitting with Proust et al.
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At the house of salonnière Geneviève Straus in Clos des Mûnieres, Trouville, Normandy, 1893. Sitting (from left) are Marcel Proust, Louis Ganderax, and Straus. Standing (from left) are an unidentified…

Contributor:

Photographer Unknown

Places:

Normandy, France

Date:

1893

Subjects:

Portrait, Philosophy, Class, Jewish identity, Scholarship

Categories:

Photography
Photograph of several figures sitting at table in garden and signatures below as labels.
Neither Forget nor Deny I Am a Jew
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How preposterous and ridiculous! I have been attacked all my life as a Jew and because I am a Jew, and could not forget nor deny that I am a Jew, even if I wanted to. I am just as proud as Spinoza was…

Contributor:

Georg Brandes

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Class, Antisemitism, Philosophy

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries