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Permit me to preface the necessary information about the contents and the meaning of the book which is herewith presented to my readers with a few remarks about Jewish…
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Leopold Zunz
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1832
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All philosophy—understood in the widest sense as awe before and research into the inexplicable secrets and the inner coherence of the world—is meaningful not for the sake of knowledge but as a form of…
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Hans Kohn
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1913
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Two years ago, during a committee meeting at the Congress in Basle, I said: “We must think of creating once again a Jewry of muscles.”
Once again! For history is our witness that such a Jewry had…
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Max Nordau
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1903
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“One question, Reschid Bey,” interrupted Kingscourt. “These gentlemen will pardon me, but you are much too modest. Were not the older inhabitants of Palestine ruined by the Jewish immigration? And…
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Theodor Herzl
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Date:
1902
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The purpose of Agudat Israel is the solution of the respective tasks facing the Jewish collectivity, in the spirit of the Torah. In accordance with this purpose, it sets itself the following goals: (1…
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Agudas Yisroel
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Katovitze, German Empire (Katowice, Poland)
Date:
1912
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The echo that Marx’s writing arouses in Jews’ hearts provides clearer evidence [of Marx’s influence on Judaism].
As everybody knows, a Jewish proletariat did not exist during Marx’s lifetime…
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Zalman Shazar
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1918
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One hundred and odd years ago, the walls that imprisoned us Jews in a mental ghetto fell, torn down by Christian advocates of human rights who are assured of our eternal gratitude. After having been…
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Moritz Goldstein
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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We are speaking of the Jewish Renaissance. By this we understand the peculiar and basically inexplicable phenomenon of the progressive rejuvenation of the Jewish people in language, customs, and art…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1905
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But look, girl, if you so rarely find the opportunity to take a book into your hand, at least make a point of reading good books, not such kitsch as the Spinoza novel you have just sent me. Why do…
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1916
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A passage in chapter 22 of the third Book of Moses was destined to become the starting point for one of the most peculiar religious concepts of the Jewish people. It reads: “Observe my laws and…
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Samuel Hugo Bergmann
Places:
Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1913