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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
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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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These last words—spoken in all seriousness—completely confused Heinz. He thought he hadn’t heard right.
“Sorry—What do you have?”
“Patrol duty—Jacob can take care of the money now; you’ve seen that…
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Sammy Gronemann
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1918
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To thee I come, O long-abandoned god
Of early moons and unremembered days,
To thee whose reign was in a greener world
Among a race of men divine with youth,
Strong generations of the sons of earth:
T…
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Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Heidelberg, German Empire (Heidelberg, Germany)
Date:
1899
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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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This book consists of a descriptive account and twenty stories. The descriptive account speaks of the life of the Hasidim, a Jewish sect of eastern Europe which arose around the middle of…
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Martin Buber
Places:
Ravenna, German Empire (Germany)
Date:
1907
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But I want to go on recounting how the Prague movement developed, and what made the revolution, which brought so many impressive, great, and noble things to light everywhere, made everything in Prague…
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Moritz Hartmann
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Stuttgart, German Empire (Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1874
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Bernhardi:I beg your pardon, gentlemen; a visitor whom I have to receive. Please dine—Oscar, have the kindness—
[All enter the dining-room. Bernhardi closes the door and pulls the portiere. Enter Pr…
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Arthur Schnitzler
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1912
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This was the psychological state we were in when the war arrived. The war was not a political issue for us. We were thinking neither about the question of war guilt nor about a victorious outcome; we…
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Ernst Simon
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German Empire (Germany, Germany)
Date:
1919
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After Moshkele found his way to the Goyim’s Street, he began to be a regular and made the acquaintance of the shkotsim [“goyish” boys]. At first they mocked the little Yid who had wandered…
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Yitsḥak Dov Berkowitz
Places:
Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1903