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No Jew, whether a believer or an unbeliever, Zionist or anti-Zionist, can be objective when what is at stake is Israel and the two and a half million Jews who built a State in a land equally Holy for…
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Raymond Aron
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Paris, France
Date:
1967
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Jews, in the past celebrated for the ability to understand all things, are now in danger of being unable to understand anything at all culturally, for they do not have self-awareness. Without such…
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Aleksander Voronel
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1972
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Our state is young, with a girl’s years, just fourteen. Still without her shoes, as the poet says. But she seems old, many generations old. In these few years, old age has pounced on her. No one is…
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Chaim Hazaz
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1962
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Successive, often polemic interpretations, citations in a context of sacred doctrine or of political-historical opportunity, construe, around the archaic, cardinal words in the Hebrew canon, a…
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George Steiner
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Saratoga Springs, United States of America
(Geneva, Switzerland)
Date:
1985
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We are speaking of the Jewish Renaissance. By this we understand the peculiar and basically inexplicable phenomenon of the progressive rejuvenation of the Jewish people in language, customs, and art…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1905
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Is this the Jew of the East? Is he an old man, who, almost entirely removed from the present day and certainly removed from the future, lives a life that is limited to the most oppressed and narrowest…
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Arnold Zweig
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Kaunas, Russian Empire
(Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1918
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Warsaw, October 17, 1932
Dear friend S. Niger,
When we speak about left and right, we should, first of all, enclose both words in thick quotation marks, and then we have to remember that true left…
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Aaron Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1932
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For a half-millennium the Jew, rejected by the world, had secluded himself within ghetto walls, unconcerned with what lay without. But the day came when the world…
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Milton Steinberg
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1934
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Jewry, and religious Jewry in particular, has always attached prime importance to the rebuilding of Eretz Israel. The Hovevei Zion regarded it as a national duty; for the religious it…
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Samuel Chaim Landau
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1924
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A fire is now sweeping over the whole Old World, threatening to annihilate, heaven forbid, more than two-thirds of the Jewish people. Nobody can guarantee that the fire, heaven…
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Yosef Yitshak Schneersohn
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1941