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[ . . . ] I find myself obliged to commence with a general preface, which I bring to the fore on each occasion that I have occasion to speak about the way of “the Mizrachi” [movement] and its value…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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Date unknown, late 19th–early 20th century
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American Jews, according to the conventional wisdom, have always been impassioned and faithful in their attachment to Israel. “We are One!” the popular fund-raising slogan, has also served as a…
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Jerold S. Auerbach
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1996
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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…
Contributor:
Menahem Salih Daniel
Places:
Baghdad, British Mandate Iraq
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1922
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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
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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Whoever reads Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, his letters, and even his Hebrew grammar, will recognize and avow that Spinoza was, relative to his times in Amsterdam, if not a great scholar…
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Joseph Klausner
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1927
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One of our greatest sins in the eyes of the Jewish bourgeoisie has been that in the course of the thirty-five years of our existence as a party we have not ceased to defend the simple idea that we…
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Henryk Erlich
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1933
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For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
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George Steiner
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1966
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When we were the persecuted
I was one of you
How can I remain one
when you become the persecutors?
Your longing was
to become like other nations
who murdered you
Now you have become like them
You…
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Erich Fried
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London, United Kingdom
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1974
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The Exodus story serves as more than a religious or moral narrative. Its influence has shaped the fundamental paradigms of Western political thought to this day.
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Michael Walzer
Places:
Princeton, United States of America
Date:
1985
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In these days when Jews are being killed in Palestine, I chose to go to Grenadierstrasse—not to Jerusalem. I had the feeling it was better to be with the bereaved than the dead. I paid a condolence…
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Joseph Roth
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1929