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Berlin-Grunewald
Tauberstr. 16
February 26, 1970
Dear Mr. Scholem,
Writing this letter does not come easily to me; hence the long delay. And now you know already that I have not been able to decide in…
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Peter Szondi
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Berlin, West Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
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1970
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In the treatise Zeit ist’s [Franz] Rosenzweig outlined a detailed and imposing plan of an Academy for the Science of Judaism, the members of which would be both scholars and teachers. As scholars…
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Nahum N. Glatzer
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1956
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Born in Livorno, Tuscany, in 1656, Hezekiah ben David de Silva was a scholar best known for his halakhic work Peri ḥadash (New Fruit). De Silva studied in Syria and later headed a yeshiva in Jerusalem…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1690
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The fundamental issue surrounding the use of archaeological material to illuminate the Bible duplicates the classic Torah u-Madda question: How ought we to make use of wisdom or learning that can…
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Lawrence H. Schiffman
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New York, United States of America
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2003
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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)
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1782
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Perhaps the most difficult question we have been asked in the course of compiling this catalog has been, “What exactly is it?” Having realized quite early that there are no preexisting…
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The Jewish Catalog
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1973
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The kinnor, called in a foreign tongue arpa (harp), is a wooden instrument made in the likeness of a wide-open entrance without their being doors on it, and its upper threshold is broad and its lower…
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Abraham Portaleone
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1611
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The problem concerning the establishment of a Higher School for Jewish studies, which was recently raised by the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia (OPE), should be…
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Ben-Zion Dinur
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1917
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The real start of the myth of the Jew with the Knife in English literature goes back to the tale, already hundreds of years old, which Chaucer puts into the mouth of his Prioress, a character faintly…
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Leslie A. Fiedler
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Missoula, United States of America
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1949
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Schedule of Lectures and Cl[asses] at the Courses of Oriental StudiesDaysTimesSubjectsLecturersSaturday8–?History of the Oral Torah [i.e., early rabbinic literature]Dr. L. S. KatsenelsonSunday8–10 a.m…
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Zalman Shazar
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1911