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Better still than this is that they should recite the “Verses of Praise,” Yigdal and Adon Olam, and the other exalted prayers on Sabbaths and festivals to the accompaniment of the harp and the sound…
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Aaron Chorin
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Arad, Austrian Empire (Arad, Romania)
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1818
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Jewish statistics began 3,000 years ago. But for the first time since the dispersion of the Jewish people an organization has been formed in their midst that has set itself the goal to produce a…
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Alfred Nossig
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1903
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The primary task of our discussion today on the question of ethical behavior is that we gain clarity about the field as a whole, that we review and discuss our particular stance on this matter, and…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, German Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1906
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Schwerin, 18 May 1772
15 Iyar 5532 to the Jewish counting
To the man possessed of abundant dominion, wisdom, and understanding, renowned for his knowledge, whose name is spoken of in the far-flung…
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Rabbis of Schwerin
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Schwerin, Kingdom of Prussia (Schwerin, Germany)
Berlin, Germany
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1772
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A remarkable transformation is occurring in our days. From the confusion of imported trends that have been crowding Judaism over the past century, an element that has long been overlooked is emerging…
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Davis Trietsch, Leo Winz
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1901
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The purpose of the Jewish University is to offer Jewish youth the opportunity to obtain an education:
- A. In the general higher disciplines with special consideration given to the Wissenschaft des…
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Martin Buber, Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann
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Geneva, Switzerland
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1902
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We want to scrape off the eggshells of the ghetto and live as children of the present in the midst of German intellectual life, but without breaking with our past and shaking off the legitimate…
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Eugen Fuchs
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1912
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The Dreyfus trial transformed me into a Zionist. Not the current one in Rennes, but the original one in Paris that I witnessed in 1894. I was living in Paris then as a journalist and attended the…
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Theodor Herzl
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1899
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You should know and believe me, and understand, that I did not become zealous against the scoffers for my own glory, or for the glory of my father’s house, but that it was zeal for the Almighty that…
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Jacob Emden
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
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1762
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These are the words of the covenant as a statute for Jacob, as an everlasting covenant for Israel; the Almighty spoke but once—and He will never alter His law—through the Torah and the ruling which…
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Bet Din of Hamburg
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
1819