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Osher Margolis was one of a handful of Soviet professional historians of Jewry. Like the others, he brought a Marxist perspective to his work. The work below, though focused on the nineteenth…
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Osher Margolis
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1930
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The educated Englishman can live his entire life without ever once giving a moment’s thought to his people’s historical destiny or purpose. He knows instinctively that his people are alive and intact…
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Mikhail Gershenzon
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1922
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It is not only Jews who have come out of the Ghetto: Judaism has come out, too. For Jews the exodus is confined to certain countries, and is due to toleration; but Judaism has come out (or is coming…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1898
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We must not repeat the mistake made by western Jews . . . in denying their nationality and in assimilating completely in all areas of life except religion. . . . We eastern Jews have seen all the…
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Simon Dubnov
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1906
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Dedicated to my sister and friend Sarah Rappoport
A people’s poetry depicts, vividly and in clear relief, the hidden inner world of national life, to which we are admitted neither by the pen of the…
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S. An-ski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1908
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“A negative attitude toward the diaspora” is an expression frequently heard in discussions between the Zionists, who look beyond the diaspora for a solution to our national problem, and the…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1909
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What more can I add? Will I tell my readers about the disreputable attributes that prevail among those coming from exile, about gratuitous hatred, discord, vain squabbles over a place in the synagogue…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1891
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O Russians, you who love your fellow men! You would shudder from the bottoms of your kind hearts if you saw the effect of that terrible accusation which Jews who were eyewitnesses to the unjustified…
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Lev Nevakhovich
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1803
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June 1, 1918
Jewish music is the face of a frozen sphinx which, after the millennium of its antiquity, is still only on the path to discovering its secret, is only now waking to life…
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Aleksander Krein
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1918
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The resolution of the heder commission and the OPE [The Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia] Committee indicates that our task went far beyond the limits of a…
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Felix Shapiro
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Minsk, Russian Empire (Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
1912