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Those who are engrossed by the Jewish problem and strive to resolve it approach it from the most various points of view, save that which alone would be logical—I mean the Jewish point of view.
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Bernard Lazare
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
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1898
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March 17, 1903
18 Adar, 5663
Safi—May He Who is on high make its Foundation firm
(Morocco)
To His Honor, the Exalted President, Lover of His People, Glory of His Nation, Our Distinguished Lord, Dr. T…
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Ahavat Zion Society
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(Morocco, Morocco)
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1903
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Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with Patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also…
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Boston, United States of America
Washington D.C., United States
Date:
1915
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Maimonides, the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages, was of the opinion that the principles and methods of metaphysics formed part of the traditional lore of the sages of the Mishnah and…
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Isaac Herzog
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Ireland, Ireland
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1929
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Notice, dear readers, that one of the foundations of Judaism is the belief (אמונה) in השארת הנפש, the abidingness of the soul, which means the immortality of the soul, for a person’s soul does not die…
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Ḥayim Shaki
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1899
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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
Date:
1932
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In a phrase of Hermann Cohen, Maimonides is the “classic of rationalism” in Judaism. This phrase appears to us to be correct in a stricter sense than Cohen may have intended: Maimonides’…
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Leo Strauss
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Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1935
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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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When macabre reality gnaws at a person’s soul, it is hard to devote oneself to psychological investigation, even of very pressing subjects. The event also seemed cut off from life, entirely academic…
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Szymon Draenger
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Kraków, General Government
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1943
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When we consider the quotidian life of our society, it is impossible to ignore the phenomenon of “avoidance”; namely, it seems that the public at large is unwilling to think too much about the…
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Fishel Schneersohn
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Kibbutz Hulda, Mandate Palestine
(Huldah, Israel)
Date:
1943