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[ . . . ] That the status of the Jews in Europe has been not only that of an oppressed people but also of what Max Weber has called a “pariah people” is a fact most clearly appreciated by those who…
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Hannah Arendt
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1944
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In describing the psychology of what he calls the “inauthentic Jew” among Gentiles, Sartre does not distinguish between the psychology of what I call the “inauthentic” Jew—the Jew who desires, so to…
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Sidney Hook
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New York, United States of America
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1949
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Dedicated to my sister and friend Sarah Rappoport
A people’s poetry depicts, vividly and in clear relief, the hidden inner world of national life, to which we are admitted neither by the pen of the…
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S. An-ski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1908
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Literature cannot survive, cannot develop freely and expansively, if it depends on an underdeveloped reader, if it satisfies the spiritual-aesthetic needs only of those who have no access to the…
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Shmuel Niger, A. Vayter, Shmarye Gorelik
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1908
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“A negative attitude toward the diaspora” is an expression frequently heard in discussions between the Zionists, who look beyond the diaspora for a solution to our national problem, and the…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1909
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The skeptics and rebels who have just recently appeared in our literature say: What? The Jews have survived? Yes, it’s true they have survived. But, my friends, survival alone is not yet a virtue…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1913
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The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews.
Why do we call ourselves Jews? Because we are Jews? What does that mean: we are Jews? I…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1911
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I want to profess straight off that I am a Jew. Does it require justification if I write in a spirit other than that of defending the Jews? Many of my fellow tribesmen know themselves only as Germans…
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Walter Rathenau
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1897
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The strongest testimony to life is productivity, and the most direct form of productivity is art. That is why those of us who announce a life of the Jewish people inquire into the possibility of…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1901
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In memory of my father, Salomón Motje Rozitchner.
What other eternity is there
if not that of knowing
you are eternally dead.
For Jews the choices are not just difficult. The revolution requires the…
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León Rozitchner
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1968