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. . . We believe that our outlook on social life in general is more refined and purer than that of contemporary civilized nations. Our family is sacred to us in a manner more profound than [is the…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1920
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The first Po‘ale Tsiyon group in Poltava was born out of the theoretical battle between Zionism and the journal Iskra [the organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party]. Up until 1905, [Dov Ber]…
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Yaakov Zerubavel
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1921
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…The rationalist model related to Jewish history and the Diaspora as accidents that could be corrected. It did not devote much thought to the past, but…
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Anita Shapira
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1997
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Dear Brother:
It is an enchanting evening. The wind has been blowing steadily the whole day. It suddenly dropped at nightfall. All is still. There is no stir in the air. The world seems fast asleep. I…
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Sasson Shalom Dallal
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1949
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The idea which I have developed in this pamphlet is a very old one: the restoration of The Jewish State.
The world resounds with outcries against the Jews, and these outcries have awakened the…
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Theodor Herzl
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1896
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[ . . . ] Got together with Werner this afternoon; he wants me to become active in the [Social Democratic] party. Had a discussion about historical materialism that was quite interesting to me. [ . .…
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Gershom Scholem
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1915
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New and hitherto unknown words have entered our dictionary. These words can now be heard at gatherings, and even more in private conversations, and sometimes we read them in the press. And if, until…
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Moshe Beilinson
Places:
Petah Tikvah, Mandate Palestine (Petaẖ Tiqva, Israel)
Date:
1927
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The Exodus story serves as more than a religious or moral narrative. Its influence has shaped the fundamental paradigms of Western political thought to this day.
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Michael Walzer
Places:
Princeton, United States of America
Date:
1985
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During the century from the beginnings of the Yishuv Hadash [Modern Zionist Settlement] until the present, the competition between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv has played a critical role. Although Tel Aviv…
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Dan Miron
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Bnei Brak, Israel
Date:
1987
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If it hadn’t been for Hitler there would be no Israel. If there had been no Holocaust there would be no Jewish State today. How often this line of reasoning is used! Even the German-British writer…
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Michael Wolffsohn
Places:
Munich, West Germany (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1988