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In a phrase of Hermann Cohen, Maimonides is the “classic of rationalism” in Judaism. This phrase appears to us to be correct in a stricter sense than Cohen may have intended: Maimonides’…
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Leo Strauss
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Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1935
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The Jews are probably the only people in the world to whom it has ever been proposed that their historic destiny is—to be nice. This singular concept has played such an important role in…
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Maurice Samuel
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1932
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The occurrence of self-criticism as a determinant may explain how it is that a number of the most apt jokes . . . have grown up on the soil of Jewish popular life. They are stories created by Jews and…
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Sigmund Freud
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1905
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Jewish thought, having always been in a vital relation to Christian scholarship—sometimes, as in scholasticism, the influencing part, sometimes, as in the 19th century, the influenced part—has…
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Franz Rosenzweig
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1914
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If in what follows the nature of language is considered on the basis of the first chapter of Genesis, the object is neither biblical interpretation nor subjection of the Bible to objective…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1916
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Bern, Thursday [18 or 25 May 1905]
Dear Habicht,
Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some…
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Albert Einstein
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Bern, Switzerland
Date:
1905
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The kinnor, called in a foreign tongue arpa (harp), is a wooden instrument made in the likeness of a wide-open entrance without their being doors on it, and its upper threshold is broad and its lower…
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Abraham Portaleone
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1611
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The concept of a resurrected culture after Auschwitz is illusory and contradictory, and every construct that still comes into being has to pay a bitter price because of that. But since the world…
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Geoffrey H. Hartman
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New Haven, United States of America
Date:
1997
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1780
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What is Judaism if not an ethical monotheism? The answer is that it is not an “ism” at all, despite the last syllable in its name. It is a living soul or consciousness; it is the soul or consciousness…
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Mordecai M. Kaplan
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915