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The way in which the Jewish world will merge into the European follows from the above-mentioned principle. To merge does not mean to perish [aufgehen ist nicht untergehen]. Only the obstinate, self…
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Eduard Gans
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1822
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Following the example of Plato, I have Socrates in his last hours relate the arguments for the immortality of the human soul to his students. The dialogue of the Greek author, which has the name Phaed…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1767
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The Lion’s Chancellor, the Wolf, was taken to court by all the animals, who complained that no living being was safe from his predatory jaws. “This insatiable creature…
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David Friedländer
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1779
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The Gentiles abuse us and say that we are a foolish nation, not a wise one. They consequently slander the words of our sages, and say that whoever studies them becomes divorced from the norms of…
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Baruch ben Jacob (Baruch of Shklov) Schick
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1780
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There is one people in the world alone who are not sufficiently concerned with “human knowledge” and who have neglected the public instruction of their youth in the laws of etiquette, the sciences and…
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Naphtali Herts Wessely
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1782
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It is remarkable to observe how prejudice changes its form in every century in order to oppress us and to pose difficulties for our admission to civil society. In former, superstitious times, it was…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1782
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Hamburg, July 7. (Personal communication) In Smyrna, a newspaper will now be published in the Jewish-Spanish language commonly spoken there, entitled La Buena Esperansa. We have the prospectus dated…
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Die Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1842