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I was born a Jew, and as I attained self-awareness, I realized that almost four thousand years of human history were working to present me with questions: How was I to understand myself as a Jew, how…
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Henryk Nusbaum
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1899
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Precisely in the case of a new and difficult question like “Jewish folk-music,” [ . . . ] it is necessary to establish as much as possible [its] specific, objective characteristics . . . You make fun…
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Joel Engel
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1901
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To Professor Cesare Lombroso in Turin. Most esteemed and dear teacher!
I dedicate this book to you, in order to express aloud that I would not have been able to write this…
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Max Nordau
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Turin, Kingdom of Italy
(Italy, Italy)
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1896
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Jewish statistics began 3,000 years ago. But for the first time since the dispersion of the Jewish people an organization has been formed in their midst that has set itself the goal to produce a…
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Alfred Nossig
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1903
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“There is no Jewish music!” Thus concluded not only our assimilationists but also most of our nationalists.
We will not argue with the former at all, since, according to them, because there is no…
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Avraham Tsvi Idelsohn
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1907
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I have often been asked, and still am asked, whether I know from my frequent conversations with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy about his attitudes toward the Jews. I am asked whether I spoke with him on…
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Ilya Ginzburg
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
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1910
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What is the sought-after culture? What are all the great ideals, all of man’s lofty ideals? What does man seek in life?
If only man knew what he should seek in life! All great ideals were only created…
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Aaron David Gordon
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(Israel, Israel)
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1910
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Assimilation, taken literally, means making things similar to each other, and in this concrete instance refers to a desire for the assimilation of Jews in terms of language, culture, and customs to…
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Adam Wizel
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1910
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There is no need to provide evidence concerning the great value of folk songs when one wishes to study the history of a people—any people—and all it has undergone. Alongside the history books of each…
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Shaul Ginsburg, Peysakh Marek
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1898
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Persecution because of a person’s religious observance is reprehensible, even despicable, though still somewhat understandable. What is understandable—I am not saying: justifiable—is that zealots who…
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Mozes Henriquez Pimentel
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1891