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We, the screamers, have been at it now for about ten years. We started on the night when the epileptic van der Lubbe set fire to the German Parliament; we said that if you don’t quench those flames at…
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Arthur Koestler
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1944
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At first the contrast between them must seem very sharp: the first a somewhat fantastic figure, an ambitious opportunist, a social and political adventurer, flamboyant, over-dressed, the epitome of…
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Isaiah Berlin
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New York City, United States of America
(Oxford, United Kingdom)
Date:
1980
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He was late.
Under normal circumstances, she would have considered it a minor annoyance, a matter of a dinner grown cold, or a delay in helping the children with their homework, or an errand that…
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Glenn Frankel
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New York City, United States of America
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1999
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What I am trying to suggest is that, different as the immediately present objects were in each case, Torah for the Rabbis, Nature for Wordsworth, there existed for the Rabbis and for Wordsworth a…
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Lionel Trilling
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London, United Kingdom
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1950
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Defining and establishing Mizrahim as Edot haMizrah served to prevent, until the early 1980s, any attempt to create a collective Mizrahi identity as an alternative to the general Israeli identity…
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Sami Shalom Chetrit
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London, United Kingdom
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
2004
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Half a century has passed since the victory of the Allied troops put an abrupt end to Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question”—but the memory of the Holocaust goes on polluting the world of…
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Zygmunt Bauman
Places:
Durham, United States of America
(Leeds, United Kingdom)
Date:
1998