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A man over eighty is seated at his desk, looking up at an old picture, one more than fifty years old. His eyes meet with those of a beautiful old woman, a woman who was born a…
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Zvi Hirsch Masliansky
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1924
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I was honored to receive your request to express my opinion on the current question of electing women to the Jewish representative assembly…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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1919
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And then—it was after I had returned from Tiberias to Tel Aviv to attend a literary soirée—then the creative activity, archetypical, all-embracing, that hitherto I had sought in vain, at last…
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A. M. Klein
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New York City, United States of America
(Montreal, Canada)
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1951
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I was out of the cavern no more than a minute, taking a last look around the square at the minarets, the moon, the domes, the Wall, when someone was shouting at me, “It’s you!”
Standing in my path was…
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Philip Roth
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1986
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An offshoot of the Nazi counterhistory still lives forth in the various apologetic-polemical exercises known as “revisionist” literature. It is a name given (inter alia) to a distinct group of…
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Amos Funkenstein
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Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1993
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Not too long ago, few Jews—or Christians, for that matter—would have had difficulty justifying the existence of a Jewish state. The destruction of European Jewry left a profound impression on the…
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Yoram Hazony
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New York City, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
2000
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[…] That we in Israel are in need of a dose of Jewish soul—that this, as much as sheer survival, with which it is in no small way connected, is a pressing issue of our existence—I readily concede. But…
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Hillel Halkin
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Philadelphia, United States of America
(Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)
Date:
1976
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“We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That’s all we know for sure. We can’t create a new species or a new world. That’s been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries. What are…
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Carol Matas
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New York City, United States of America
(Winnipeg, Canada)
Date:
1993
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Odets:(pulls a silver cigarette case from his pocket, takes out an unfiltered cigarette, offers the case to Werfel) Smoke?
Werfel:Nicotine is bad for you…thanks. (He takes out three cigarettes and…
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Michaela Ronzoni
Places:
Riverside, United States of America
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1997
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The ancient Judaic midrash paved the way for a certain type of biblical hermeneutics while also using the master pre-Text as a pretext for creating a new tale. The midrash is the prototype of creative…
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Nehama Aschkenasy
Places:
Stamford, United States of America
Date:
2004