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The renaissance of the Maccabean festival, which began with the onset of modern nationalism, signified a great revolution in Jewish thinking. The Jew aspired to leave behind the unworthy life of exile…
Contributor:
Robert Weltsch
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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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…
Contributor:
Moshe Beilinson
Places:
Petah Tikvah, Mandate Palestine
(Petaẖ Tiqva, Israel)
Date:
1927
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Whoever reads Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, his letters, and even his Hebrew grammar, will recognize and avow that Spinoza was, relative to his times in Amsterdam, if not a great scholar…
Contributor:
Joseph Klausner
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1927
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In 1930, Chaim Elazar Shapiro (Spira), the Hasidic rebbe of Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (today, Mukachevo, Ukraine), traveled by rail to Vienna and Trieste and by ship to Alexandria, where he and his…
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Moshe Goldstein
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1930
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“God’s writing engraved on the
tablets”—read not harut (engraved)
but herut (freedom).
—Sayings of the Fathers VI, 2
Among all the problems of present-day Jewish life, that of youth’s attitude…
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Martin Buber
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1919
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[ . . . ] That sacred foundation, which constitutes the main theme of all this great vision, contains within it a hidden ray of the light of the Messiah, the redeemer who is revealed and concealed…
Contributor:
Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1929
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The Committee for the Consolidation of Hebrew Youth appeals to you only in order that you understand the very essence of what is in common between you and the rest of Hebrew youth, which operates in…
Contributor:
Yonatan Ratosh
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(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1943
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For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
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George Steiner
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1966
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All of a sudden, Grandmother’s empty burial plot is occupied. They finally returned mother to father’s side. One tree spreads its shadow over both their graves. Grandmother, too, finally gets what she…
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Naomi Frankel
Places:
Bet Alfa, Israel
Date:
1967
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[While the song from the radio can still be heard, Israelsits motionless, in such a way that it is hard to tell whether he is checking a test, thinking, or is just sunk in his place. Later, suddenly…
Contributor:
Avraham Raz
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1972