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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)
Date:
Late 1920s
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All philosophy—understood in the widest sense as awe before and research into the inexplicable secrets and the inner coherence of the world—is meaningful not for the sake of knowledge but as a form of…
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Hans Kohn
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1913
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The Four Sections of Jewry Jewish Assimilation
Number.
Typical Representatives.
Economic Condition.
Religious Outlook.
Education
Birth- rate per 1,000 souls.
Percentage of Mixed Marriages.
Conver…
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Arthur Ruppin
Date:
1904
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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
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
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)
Date:
1953
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But Heinrich Heine—even the aesthetes who are rescuing his immortality in an island publishing house (these gloriously impractical minds whose cerebral wrinkles trail away into ornament) have nothing…
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Karl Kraus
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German Empire (Germany, Germany)
Date:
1910
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Is there a Jewish people? Thousands of Jews, whose language at school and in daily discourse is Hebrew, are again living in Palestine. Neo-Hebrew literature has essayists like Ahad Ha-Am, poets like B…
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Ludwig Strauss
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Berlin, German Empire (Germany)
Munich, German Empire (Germany)
Date:
1912
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October 10, 1912 Berlin-Grunewald Delbrückstr. 23 Dear Mr. Strauß!That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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Unity and Development
Judaism can look back upon a history of some thousands of years. During this period it has learned much and experienced much. Its thought always…
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Leo Baeck
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1905
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The best of the Western Jews have gradually become used to talking about the existence of a Jewish people as if it were a logical and historically proven fact.
But they have not yet arrived at the…
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Fritz Kaufmann
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913