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Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724) occupied a number of prominent roles, including court Jew, Austrian financier, and chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia. This portrait was painted around the time when he…
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
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ca. 1700
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1741
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(The Hague, Netherlands)
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ca. 1685
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(Normandy, France)
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1893
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Jules Pascin
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
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1907
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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…
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Georg Brandes
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New York, United States of America
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1914
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I want, at the request of the Arbeter Ring’s National Education Committee, to give a brief overview of the lectures we have arranged this season.
It is true that we haven’t had the opportunity to…
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A. Feynman
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1916
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It was most curious, Hemdat’s having agreed to give Yael Hayyut literature lessons. Yet since it struck him as being but one more insoluble psychological riddle, he took the moralist’s advice and…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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(Israel, Israel)
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1911
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Man is not naturally a gregarious animal, though he has become so under the compulsion of circumstances and civilisation. You can see this in the history of his dwellings. In the beginning…
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Leonard Woolf
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(London, United Kingdom)
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1913
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The street lamps of the Old Town began to flare out in preparation for the night. And soon the yellow gas-lights shone in the shop windows too, and outside the little…
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Sholem Asch
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1916