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At this moment in world history anti-Semitism is not manifesting itself with the full and violent destructiveness of which we know it to be capable. Even a social disease has its periods of quiescence…
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Max Horkheimer, Samuel H. Flowerman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1950
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Statisticians customarily provide detailed counts for a typical small town, from which deductions can be made regarding other small towns of the same type. Thus the statistics of a small town acquire…
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Jakob Lestschinsky
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1903
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With good reason the Jewish people have earned the highest title to which a nation can aspire, the honor of being called The People of the Book [Am ha-seyfer]. “Der Seyfer,” the book, has…
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S. An-ski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1914
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In 1905 a group of Jewish Social Democrats left the party in Galicia in order to found their own organization of Jewish Social Democratic workers. The executive of the international Social Democratic…
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Otto Bauer
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Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
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1907
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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…
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Joseph Nehama
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1913
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[ . . . ] On a terribly cold winter night when a snowstorm was blowing, all prisoners were punished by being forced to stand at attention without overcoats—they never wore any—for hours. This was…
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Bruno Bettelheim
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1943
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In attempting this psychological presentation and a psychopathological explanation of the typical characteristics of a concentration camp inmate, I may give the impression that the human being is…
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Viktor E. Frankl
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Vienna, Allied-occupied Austria
(Vienna, Austria)
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1946
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It is not the plan of this essay to discuss the millennium-old problem of faith and reason. I want instead to focus attention on a human-life situation in which the man of faith as an individual…
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1965
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In describing the psychology of what he calls the “inauthentic Jew” among Gentiles, Sartre does not distinguish between the psychology of what I call the “inauthentic” Jew—the Jew who desires, so to…
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Sidney Hook
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New York, United States of America
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1949
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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