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There is very little real anti-Semitism in the South. There is even a solid tradition of philo-Semitism, the explanation of which lies in the very character of Southern Protestantism itself—in the…
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Harry L. Golden
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1955
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It appears rather strange that Jewish intellectuals, more than three decades after World War II, feel called upon now more than ever before to articulate for West Germans what it has meant and means…
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Jack Zipes
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Minneapolis, United States of America
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1980
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At her meeting with the associate dean, Edith Margareten asked the administrator, a woman in her mid-40s, about the climate for Jews at Notre Dame. “Oh, it’s fine,” she said. “I’m Methodist myself.”
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Robin Hemley
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1996
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In what sense is Judaism racist? Does it in general recognize the “holiness” of race and if so, what practical deductions have Jews made from such a theory?
In connection with the Nazi racist…
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Hayim Greenberg
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New York, United States of America
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1945
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Every article you’ve done for us, Phil,” Minify had said, “has a kind of human stuff in it. The right answers get in it somehow.”
Sure. But he hadn’t asked for them and pried for them. When he’d…
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Laura Z. Hobson
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New York, United States of America
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1947
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Stanislaw often told me how much he liked my company, and sometimes he wondered about my Jewishness: “Look at yourself! You cannot be Jewish!” he would exclaim. And yet whenever he spoke to me about…
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Nechama Tec
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Connecticut, United States of America
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1982
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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
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1932
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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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[…] We knew Dr. James had visited when we found our mothers in bed “resting,” an odd word, an odd event. When we left for school, they had no symptoms of cold or cough or pain; preoccupied perhaps…
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Kate Simon
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New York, United States of America
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1982
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For a half-millennium the Jew, rejected by the world, had secluded himself within ghetto walls, unconcerned with what lay without. But the day came when the world…
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Milton Steinberg
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New York City, United States of America
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1934