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Salomon Saveri, Benedict de Castro
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1631
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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
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1968
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What is Judaism if not an ethical monotheism? The answer is that it is not an “ism” at all, despite the last syllable in its name. It is a living soul or consciousness; it is the soul or consciousness…
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Mordecai M. Kaplan
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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When the [Yiddish language] culture conference gathered in Czernowitz [in September, 1908], I was against it. When the culture conference gathered in Berlin, I voiced my doubts about it. Now that a…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910
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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
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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In the past there were no children among Jews, only “little Jews without beards,” so neither was there any children’s literature. Boys in the traditional heder used to read Ḥumesh [The Pentateuch]…
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Shmuel Niger
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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Dedicated to Dr. Zunz, the grandmaster of Jewish scholarship, on his 90th birthday.
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Wilhelm Bacher
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
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1884
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The idea of publishing a complete History of the Jews in Russia scarcely calls for extensive explanations or justifications. Russian Jewry, which quantitatively represents the most significant…
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Iulli Gessen
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1913
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With good reason the Jewish people have earned the highest title to which a nation can aspire, the honor of being called The People of the Book [Am ha-seyfer]. “Der Seyfer,” the book, has…
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S. An-ski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1914
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Is this the Jew of the East? Is he an old man, who, almost entirely removed from the present day and certainly removed from the future, lives a life that is limited to the most oppressed and narrowest…
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Arnold Zweig
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Kaunas, Russian Empire (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1918