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A few days after receiving your precious letter of 5 November 1854, I began collating [the pages of my book], which took me until New Year’s eve to finish. But what a chasm in between! I began the…
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Daniel Khvolson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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ca. 1855
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I wish, then, to describe the four classes to which Jews today belong in order to derive therefrom the principal claim of this discussion, namely: to the extent that the Jews do not take advantage of…
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Lazarus Bendavid
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1793
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
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1724
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
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1724
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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
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1724
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“There are two synagogues of the German Jews, and one of the Portuguese, twenty-four cubits broad and forty-two long. Each one has its own management; thus the income of one is not mixed with that of…
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Moise Vita Cafsuto
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
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ca. 1735
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Like a wooer and a husband
I devote myself to your faith
since being a husband does not imply
a courtly surrender.
Like a wooer I pursue your love
because I wish to merit
the privileges of a…
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Abraham Gómez Silveira
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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First Half of the 18th Century
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Jewishness, the conscious affirmation of the qualities that make Jews Jews, presumes a contrast between Us and Them. The Jews constitute an Us; all the rest of humanity, or, in Jewish language, the…
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Shaye J. D. Cohen
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Cambridge, United States of America
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1999
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Today in Germany it seems Jewish assimilation must declare its bankruptcy. The general social antisemitism and its official legitimation affects in the first instance assimilated Jews, who can no…
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Hannah Arendt
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1933
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This will be the first of my addresses before the Zionist Congresses to deal not with the various questions involved in the upbuilding of Palestine but with the significance of…
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Arthur Ruppin
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1929