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When an intimidated individual or a careerist among my brethren feels inclined or forced to identify himself as a son of his forefathers, then he usually describes himself—provided he was not baptized…
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Albert Einstein
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
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1920
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That the image of these United States as a “meltingpot” might be a delusion and its imputed harmony with democracy a snare was not an idea which, prior to the Great War, seemed even possible to…
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Horace M. Kallen
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1924
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Arthur Kolnik
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Paris, France
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1948
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Siona Shimshi
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1955–1965
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Larry Rivers
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New York, United States of America
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1984
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Adam Rolston
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New York, United States of America
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1993
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Some time ago I came here to the holy congregation of Amsterdam and I visited the schools of the Sephardim a number of times. There I saw “giants [in scholarship]: tender children as small as…
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Shabbetai Meshorer Bass
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1680
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Salomon Saveri, Benedict de Castro
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
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1631
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The turning wheel runs round and round.
It opens and closes the exit of my gate.
Noisily it turns for ruin and destruction.
My head is split, my entrails spilled.
It chases and it catches…
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Solomon de Oliveyra
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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17th Century