Tag Archives: German Jewish History

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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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. Salomonski uses the meaning of … Continue reading →

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Jewish Liberal Newspaper, June 10, 1921

Posted on April 27, 2022 by Lis Strenger

p.1 On the Feast of Weeks [Shavuot] by Rabbi Dr. Salomonski, Frankfurt (Oder) Just acknowledging the 10 commandments is not equivalent to a living Judaism. We have no intention to diminish these, which have now become all of humanity’s. Even … 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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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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