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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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1913
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Following the example of Plato, I have Socrates in his last hours relate the arguments for the immortality of the human soul to his students. The dialogue of the Greek author, which has the name Phaed…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1767
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The Gentiles abuse us and say that we are a foolish nation, not a wise one. They consequently slander the words of our sages, and say that whoever studies them becomes divorced from the norms of…
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Baruch ben Jacob (Baruch of Shklov) Schick
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1780
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The telos (takhlit) of man’s activities, in the aspect (behinah) of having will and choice, is the ultimate human good (ha’hatslahah ha’enoshi’it). This excellence necessarily comes after the…
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Solomon Maimon
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1792
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We are speaking of the Jewish Renaissance. By this we understand the peculiar and basically inexplicable phenomenon of the progressive rejuvenation of the Jewish people in language, customs, and art…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1905
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One hundred and odd years ago, the walls that imprisoned us Jews in a mental ghetto fell, torn down by Christian advocates of human rights who are assured of our eternal gratitude. After having been…
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Moritz Goldstein
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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I have experienced in yishuvim [Jewish communities—Ed.] that old women are unable to keep the commandment of nido [menstrual purity—Ed.] properly. When they examine themselves and find a spot of blood…
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Elḥanan Kirkhhain
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Kirchhain, Holy Roman Empire
(Kirchhain, Germany)
Date:
1727
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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-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Vienna/Leipzig, Austrian Empire/German Empire
(Vienna/Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1905
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The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews.
Why do we call ourselves Jews? Because we are Jews? What does that mean: we are Jews? I…
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Martin Buber
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1911