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There is a matter well known and widely publicized among all those who have come through the gates of our city, Constantinople [Istanbul], may God preserve it. . . . [I]t occurred about two years…
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Isaac Akrish
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1858
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The way in which the Jewish world will merge into the European follows from the above-mentioned principle. To merge does not mean to perish [aufgehen ist nicht untergehen]. Only the obstinate, self…
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Eduard Gans
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1822
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How, I ask you, could we have continued to be a nation until the present, and how could we have been able to walk such a great distance along the path of history without losing our unity or having our…
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Solomon Judah Rapoport
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Prag, Austrian Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1845
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The outstanding feature of the religious situation in America today is the pervasiveness of religious self-identification along the tripartite scheme of Protestant, Catholic, Jew. From the “land of…
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Will Herberg
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1955
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Nearly fifteen years ago, following frequent persecutions against our coreligionists in Russia and Romania, a few European Jews conceived of the project of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine and…
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David Fresco
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1909
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Rosario, Argentina, June 16, 1914
Your Eminence,
Permit me to bother you in the name of the Jewish collective of Rosario, because of a divergence of opinion arising between us, about which we desire…
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David Pisanté
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Rosario, Argentina
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1914
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I trust that none of my remarks will be understood to say that assimilation is not now, or has not always been, a great threat to the Jewish group. In a sense, the problem of assimilation is as old as…
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Gerson D. Cohen
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Brookline, United States of America
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1966
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Michael Joseph Guzikov
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Lyady, Russian Empire
(Lyady, Belarus)
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1827
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Responding to the high rates of intermarriage and concerns about eroding Jewish life, the organized Jewish community has initiated a drive to ensure the Jewish future in North America. As Jewish…
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Steven Bayme, American Jewish Committee
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New York, United States of America
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1996
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For the first time in its career, Judaism is challenged by the Jew more vigorously even than by the Gentile. However anxious the modern Jew may be to remain a Jew, he finds himself today in a quandary…
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Mordecai M. Kaplan
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New York City, United States of America
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1927