Category Archives: Jewish-Liberal Newspaper

The parent category for sub-threads that contain various themes or types of posts associated with this project.

Going Home (a WWI Novella)

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Lis Strenger

He almost greeted the outbreak of the war as a kind of salvation and he decided he had to go to France in those early August days, 1914, even though he had a premonition that the war would be an immense catastrophe for his German fatherland… Continue reading →

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Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks

Posted on June 3, 2022 by Lis Strenger

June 3, 2022 The Shavuot holiday will start at sundown tomorrow. To coincide with the holiday, Yad Vashem’s newsletter included an article that featured recollections of Shavuot celebrations during the Holocaust. A photograph shows a gathering of Jewish survivors at … Continue reading →

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Issue 27, June 10, 1921 Highlights

Posted on April 27, 2022 by Lis Strenger

The lead article for the “Liberal Jewish Newspaper” of Breslau is authored by a Reform Jewish rabbi, Martin Salomonski (from Frankfurt on the Oder, later in Berlin) on the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot. Dr. Salmonski uses the meaning of … Continue reading →

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Jewish Liberal Newspaper, June 3, 1921

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Lis Strenger

p.1 Philipp Bloch. It is with admiration and honor that we wish a veteran of reform Judaism congratulations on the completion of his 80th year. Philipp Bloch, born on May 30, 1841, is a child of the German East and … Continue reading →

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Jewish Liberal Newspaper, May 27, 1921

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Lis Strenger

p. 1 National German Jews and the Middle Ranks. by Dr. Max Naumann (Berlin) [Translation] In Issue 14, March 4 of this publication in the article “On the National German Jews”, the lawyer Erich Spitz opposed Dr. Naumann‘s writing and … Continue reading →

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Jewish Liberal Newspaper, May 20, 1921

Posted on November 15, 2020 by Lis Strenger

p.1 Anti-Semitism and the Bible. by Dr. Ed. König, Professor of Protestant Theology at the University of Bonn. Open Your Eyes! by Fritz Stoll (Breslau) Synopsis: Stoll analyzes the discussion on Palestine and Zionism that took place during the April … Continue reading →

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Restarting translations–why now?

Posted on November 14, 2020 by Lis Strenger

Visitors to this site, I apologize for neglecting this project, not adding translations, not even blogging. It’s time to re-commit as I believe tracing early signals of antisemitism is unfortunately once again relevant as some Americans and Europeans are rekindling … Continue reading →

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Jewish Liberal Newspaper, May 13, 1921

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Lis Strenger

p.1 Zionist Liberalism. by Rabbi Dr. Jacob (Dortmund). Synopsis: An unusual phenomenon in German Judaism is the appearance of a Liberal Zionism. German liberal Jews see their participation in the development of Palestine as a means to increase the influence … Continue reading →

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