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And I will wait upon the Lord,
who hides His face from the house of Jacob,
and I will look for Him. (Isaiah 8:16)
I endeavored to place before the educated reader all the literature of redemption…
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Yehuda Even-Shmuel
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1943
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A hundred generations, yes, a hundred and twenty-five,
had the strength each day
not to eat this and that (unclean!)
not to say this and that,
not to do this and that (unjust!),
and with all this…
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Charles Reznikoff
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1940
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The author is not among those who adhere to the doctrine that “money talks.” Knowledge talks, conscience talks, but money is merely counted—more by some, less by others. If the author…
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Isaac Rivkind
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1959
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If we Jews had our patron saints, the priest-prophet Ezekiel would be the patron saint of those of us who are vitally concerned in the outcome of the present crisis in…
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Mordecai M. Kaplan
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1948
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A natural history of the Jewish mind is impossible. The Jewish mind, as a natural and empirical phenomenon, is an absurdity. It consists in but the pale images of…
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Arthur A. Cohen
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1962
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I believe “Oriental” is the appropriate term. I feel proud to be classed with Hindus and Chinese and Japanese and other Asiatics. Besides, the name reminds us of dear Turkey, to whom we owe so much…
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Joseph Gedalecia
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1914
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There is no denying that under the influence of this enthusiasm for America, the disintegrating process of the Melting Pot is taking place in large measure. That it is not, fortunately, taking place…
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Judah L. Magnes
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1909
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Everyone who passes among those numbered from twenty years old and upward shall give his tribute to the Lord.
. . . As we number the congregation and lament that the young do not always take the…
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David de Sola Pool
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912
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For twenty-two years I have been one of the parnasim [board members] and leaders of this magnificent congregation, the city of Lwów; my heart has moved me to do good work in memory of the generations…
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Solomon Buber
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Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1894
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We shall now sum up the different opinions as regards the arrival of the Jews on Chinese soil.The missionaries reported that the Jews believe, according to a tradition, that their ancestors came to…
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Adolph Neubauer
Places:
Oxford, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Date:
1895