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“You’re right to fight for everything you believe in, and I’ll do “the same, but only until it is too dangerous. I won’t risk our lives for a fight we won’t win.”

Book:The Nurse Behind the Gates

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“One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.”

Self Realization Holocaust Auschwitz Jewish History

Book:Night

Source: Night

“IN THE fifteenth century, a swampy parcel of land in the sestieri of Cannaregio was set aside for the construction of a new brass foundry, known in the Venetian dialect as a geto. The foundry was never built, and a century later, when the rulers of Venice were looking for a suitable spot to confine the city’s swelling population of unwanted Jews, the remote parcel known as Ghetto Nuovo was deemed the ideal place. The campo was large and had no parish church. The surrounding canals formed a natural moat, which cut off the island from the neighboring communities, and the single bridge could be guarded by Christian watchmen. In 1516, the Christians of Ghetto Nuovo were evicted and the Jews of Venice were forced to take their place. They could leave the ghetto only after sunrise, when the bell tolled in the campanile, and only if they wore a yellow tunic and hat. At nightfall they were required to return to the island, and the gates were chained. Only Jewish doctors could leave the ghetto at night. At its height, the population of the ghetto was more than five thousand. Now, it was home to only twenty Jews.”

Jewish History Etymology Ghetto History

Author:Daniel Silva

“Hanukkah's miracle isn't about the oil lasting 8 days, rather it's about the resilience of light amidst darkness.”

Judaism Jewish History Hanukkah Jewish Tradition Chanukah Jewish Heritage

Book:Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“And yet to reach for examples from the Holocaust, or the Jewish diaspora, has become a natural reflex when the question of ethnic or religious minorities comes up. It is a moral yardstick, yet at the same time an evasion. To be reminded of past crimes, of negligence or complicity, is never a bad thing. But it can confuse the issues at hand, or worse, bring all discussion to a halt by tarring opponents with the brush of mass murder.”

Morality Minorities Holocaust Jewish History Holocaust Literature

Book:Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance

Source: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance

“We did not study Talmud. Instead, his father talked of the Jewish world in Europe, of the people he had known who were now probably dead, of the brutality of the world, of his years in Russia with the Cossack bands looting and plundering. 'The world kills us,' he said quietly. 'Ah, how the world kills us.”

World War Ii Holocaust Judaism World War 2 Anti Semitism Jewish Jewish History

Book:The Chosen

Source: The Chosen

“Mira thought she had come home to her countrymen and to her remaining family, but in fact, she had come home to a country torn apart by civil war and into a city about to become the center of the most devastating war the Jews had ever known.”

Christianity Drama Historical Fiction Jewish History Female Heroine

Book:The Work of Thy Hand A Novel of Early Christianity

Source: The Work of Thy Hand A Novel of Early Christianity

“Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.”

Religion Ethics Coexistence

Book:The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion

“Israel is the only place in the world with a Jewish majority. Some believe this is important to give a voice in the global and political sphere to a whole group of people who have historically been persecuted. For some, it comes down to safety.”

Israel Jewish Jewish History Jewish Identity Jewish Diaspora Jewish Books

Book:Once More with Chutzpah

Source: Once More with Chutzpah

“On the one hand, I don’t know a single person who says, “Yay! Purim is my favorite holiday!” On the other hand, if there’s any holiday concept more Jewish than “Here’s the awful story of what happened to your great-great-grandmother. Have a cookie.” I don’t know what it is.”

Jewish History Jewish Tradition Jewish Identity Jewishness Jewish Humor

Author:Arinn Dembo

“Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly” or “to snare,” which is why—or so her mother used to tell her when she struggled at sewing—she could, with practice, become skilled with a needle and thread. I am Camayor, from my mother’s father, Behor Camayor of blessed memory, and also Cohen, high priests descended from the sons of Aaron, a name she feels she must live up to, though she’ll hide it as needed and may God forgive her. I am from the pomegranate tree my father planted at my birth, from my nuns in white habits, my staircase with the worn ninth tread, the candlelight reflected in my fingernails. I am a gypsy girl, because to have no home place had once seemed romantic and she could do the dance, just as she could climb ropes at gymnastics, rising and lowering at will. Or was it actually that home, back then, was everywhere?”

Jewish History Jewish Identity Sephardic Ladino

Book:Kantika

Source: Kantika

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