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The creator of the popular ritual of placing an orange on the Seder plate describes exactly how this innovation arose, its intended significance, and the problematic erasure of its origins.
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Susannah Heschel
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Hanover, United States of America
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2001
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Helmar (Helmut) Lerski
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1940–1942
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Felix Nussbaum
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1943
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Arthur Szyk
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1943
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The opportunity for which we have been struggling has come. We have the opportunity of developing a Homeland, but nothing more than an opportunity. It is urgent that we enter upon the work, urgent…
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Louis D. Brandeis
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London, United Kingdom
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1920
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It is a great pleasure for me to have this occasion, offered to me by the serial La Luz, to inform readers of the current situation in the Republic of Mexico, and to mention some of the reasons why…
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Albert Avigdor
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1922
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The Secretary
Zionist Organisation
London
Baghdad, 8th September 1922
Dear Sir,
I have the pleasure to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 20th July 1922. It is needless to say that I greatly…
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Menahem Salih Daniel
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Baghdad, British Mandate Iraq
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1922
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The character of a people, as of an individual, cannot be grasped in its totality. It is recognized by us exclusively in that unfoldment and development in time which we call…
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Hans Kohn
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1924
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The Hebrew worker did not come here as a refugee seeking shelter wherever it could be found, looking for any available means of survival. He went up into the land as an emissary of the nation, and as…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925
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The renaissance of the Maccabean festival, which began with the onset of modern nationalism, signified a great revolution in Jewish thinking. The Jew aspired to leave behind the unworthy life of exile…
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Robert Weltsch
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925