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There is nothing more terrible than dreams come true. […]
The first streets of New York. Primitive prefab apartment houses. Fire escapes down the front. The capital of the world is immediately…
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Petr Vail, Aleksandr Genis
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1983
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[…] the Madison Left experience, at least in the early and mid-1960s, was never simply an American experience. It was more jumbled, at least more composite—like America itself? In my own not untypical…
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Paul Breines
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Newton, United States of America
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1980
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Over the past ten years, the American Jewish community has undergone a radical inner shift in mood, from buoyant optimism to deep anxiety about its future. […]
The present anxiety can be dated to the…
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Charles S. Liebman, Steven M. Cohen
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New York, United States of America
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1996
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[…] Must we conclude that Israeli society is doomed to experience a Kulturkampf, and that the Zionist synthesis is marching ineluctably toward its undoing? Before answering that question, let us…
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Aviezer Ravitzky
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1997
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“Eretz Israel.” There is not one. We already grew up on one sublime Eretz Israel which is almost the be-all-and-end-all of everything. The place of the Jewish people. Its homeland, its right, its…
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Adam Baruch
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Jerusalem, Israel
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2001
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To be in exile, with a religious or historical sense that one is exiled, is to have already a mission and purpose in life. One’s clear project then is to end the exile and to return to…
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Morris Grossman
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Fairfield, United States of America
Date:
1986
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Our generation came to this country from lands where Jewish life had been lived within its own boundaries, and where our communal leaders had instilled in us a sense of responsibility to ensure that…
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Leibush Lehrer
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New York City, United States of America
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ca. 1939
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Do Israelis have one culture or many cultures, or both one culture and many cultures? This question stems from three directions.
One direction is political. The Rabin assassination exposed a deep…
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Nissim Calderon
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Beersheba, Israel
Date:
2000
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The use of the notion of “community” to define French Judaism is not self-evident. On the one hand, if “community” renders the medieval kahal, the concept has a long history and has engendered any…
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Shmuel Trigano
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Oxford, United Kingdom
(Nanterre, France)
Date:
1994
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“Secular is a terrible word”; “secular is a word I don’t like,” “there is no such thing as a secular Jew”—these clichés are common among absolutely secular intellectuals when they discuss problems of…
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Doron Rosenblum
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985