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The Jewish people did not begin to philosophize because of an irresistible urge to do so. They received philosophy from outside sources, and the history of Jewish philosophy is a history of the…
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Julius Guttmann
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1933
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I cannot express my thanks to the German Book Trade for the honor conferred on me without at the same time setting forth the sense in which I have accepted it, just as I earlier accepted the Hanseatic…
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Martin Buber
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Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1953
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And Joshua said unto all Israel: “Draw near,” etc.—Joshua 3:9.
In Midrash Genesis Rabbah, section 5 (Gen. Rabbah 5:7), it is stated: “Rav Huna said: ‘He stood them up between the two staves of the…
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Israel Salanter
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19th century
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Wisdom rests quietly in a wise man (Proverbs 14:33); nothing which he purposes to do will be withheld from him [see Job 42:2]. I envisioned a man who was diligent in his labor, who was as bright as…
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A Jewish Student in Germany
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Frankfurt- Oder, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
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End of the 17th Century
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1785
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You hold me now completely in your hands
My heart beats like a frightened little bird’s
Against your palm. Take heed! You do not think
A person lives within the page you thumb.
To you this book is…
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Gertrud Kolmar
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
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1932
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During the thousands of years of its history, Judaism has learned and experienced a good deal. In its people the commanding urge to think further, to struggle with ideas, has…
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Leo Baeck
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1922
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[ . . . ] The Judaism into which Heine was born and with which he had to come to terms as a maturing man was the Judaism of the German reform. This was, to be sure, no longer the reform, creative in…
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Leo Löwenthal
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Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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Late 1920s
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With the same character, with which the individual human being is born, with the same he descends into the grave. The kindly disposed does not become ill-disposed, the judicious does not become…
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Daniel Khvolson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1871
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I recognize no eternal verities save those which not only can be comprehended by the human intellect but can also be demonstrated and confirmed by man’s faculties. It is, however, a misconception of…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1783