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(Menachem) Imanuel Marx - 06/29/1918-11/13/6 - Residence from Birth - 1927 Youngest Son of Moses Marx (1885-1973) - my Grandfather   Moses Marx - Merchant - 11 Helmstederstrasse, Wilmersdorf, Berlin In talking with several people passing by, I learned that most of the buildings on my father's bloack and nearby had been built around 1900.   There was damage from World War II bombing, and most of them had been repaired.   I couldn't tell with 100% certainty that the house my father lived in was (not) rebuilt (some from their doors clearly were over 100 years old), but it seems likely it is the original building, probably with the apartments made into smaller units that I imagine my grandfather's residence would have been (he was wealthy prior to the end of World War I). Plaque - re: Albert Einstein Talking with several people walking in my father's birthplace neighborhood, I learned that about 2 1/2 blocks from where my father lived from his birth in 1918, (I'm gu...

Writing from a fellow Jew – with my responses – mine italicized Shared from my cousin’s post. This Is exactly correct when It comes to Jews and Israel. “You Say We Run the Banks — A Modern Jewish Response” Adapted by Jeff Kaminsky from the original work by Joshua Hoffman. ——————————————— You say we run the banks. You say we control Hollywood. You say we dominate the media. You say we have too much influence, too much power, too much pride. But you never ask how or why. So let me tell you. We were banned from owning land, so we learned to live by our minds. We were blocked from trade guilds and professions, so we became merchants, scholars, doctors, and lawyers. Our commitment to education didn’t come from privilege — it came from necessity. From exclusion. From survival. - Ob viously: “ run the banks”, “control Hollywood”, “dominate the media” – are directly Anti-Semitic. When we were barred from universities, we built our own yeshivot. The Torah became ...