Category Archives: WWI Jewish Veterans

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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Jewish-Liberal Newspaper, March 24, 1921

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Lis Strenger

Amalek. A Purim Observation. by Rabbi Dr. Ernst Appel (Bingen am Rhein) Synopsis: Amalek is the embodiment of hatred of Jews, attacking the sick and the weak as the Israelites crossed the desert. Their hatred was not a result of … Continue reading →

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Jewish-Liberal Newspaper, February 18, 1921

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Lis Strenger

Socialism und Judaism. by Dr. Walter Brinitzer, Chemnitz Synopisis: Socialism is frequently spoken of, but little understood. Whenever socialism is seen as negative, it is associated with Judaism. How easy it is to connect two things which we don’t comprehend. … Continue reading →

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Jewish-Liberal Newspaper, December 24, 1920

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Lis Strenger

The Jewish School To Our Readers! Synopsis: The newspaper will now be sent through the mail because the delivery service was unreliable. Now all subscribers will receive the newspaper on Fridays. Am I in the Place of God? (Gen. 50, … Continue reading →

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Jewish-Liberal Newspaper, December 3, 1920, pp. 3-4

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Lis Strenger

From Breslau’s Communal Life by Dr. Reich, Privy Medical Counselor, Breslau I. Among the important tasks that this paper will have to fulfill belongs the candid reporting on the matters of our Breslau community and the activities of its various … Continue reading →

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