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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)
Date:
1782
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The means of making the Jews happy and useful? Here it is: stop making them unhappy and unuseful. Accord them, or rather return to them the right of citizens, which you have denied them, against all…
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Zalkind Hourwitz
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1789
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The belated adoption of the first law of Jewish emancipation has led to the assumption that it had no practical value. True as this statement may be technically, it nevertheless needs further…
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George Barany
Places:
Denver, United States of America
Date:
1974
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In their glory days during the Renaissance, the king’s fools occupied a privileged place at court: dressed in sumptuous garments comparable in every detail to those of the kingdom’s great, in scarlet…
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Pierre Birnbaum
Places:
Stanford, United States of America
(Paris, France)
Date:
1992
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Those who are engrossed by the Jewish problem and strive to resolve it approach it from the most various points of view, save that which alone would be logical—I mean the Jewish point of view.
Indeed…
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Bernard Lazare
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1898
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Looking back, we readily recognize how many illusions were inherent in Jewish ideologies.
The Assimilationists idealized emancipation. Some of them became German…
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Robert Weltsch
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1956
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The German Jews seek emancipation. What kind of emancipation do they want? Civic, political emancipation.
Bruno Bauer replies to them: In Germany no one is politically emancipated. We ourselves are…
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Karl Marx
Places:
Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1843
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Permit me to preface the necessary information about the contents and the meaning of the book which is herewith presented to my readers with a few remarks about Jewish…
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Leopold Zunz
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1832
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When Vichy agreed to collaborate with the Germans, their decision to do so shocked many Jews living in France, particularly those who had recently arrived. Despite the Dreyfus Affair at the turn of…
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Judith Friedlander
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1995
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“When the genie of liberty inspired me the noble project to carry to the English, our natural…
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Isaac Sasportas
Places:
Kingston, Kingdom of Great Britain
(Kingston, Jamaica)
Date:
1799