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Before continuing my story about the events in Pinsk in the summer of 1940, I would like to digress briefly into the realm of the miraculous. Let us imagine the impossible—something fantastic and…
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Julius Margolin
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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The hope for a better society and the despair of solitude, both of which are founded on experiences that claim to be self-evident, seem to be in an insurmountable antagonism. There…
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Emmanuel Levinas
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1947
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Isaac de Acosta
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Bayonne, Kingdom of France
(Bayonne, France)
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1709
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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
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1967
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And thus it came to pass, and this was the beginning . . . Heavens tell me, why?
Tell me, why this, O why? What have we done to merit such disgrace?
The earth is dumb and…
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Yitshak Katzenelson
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(Vittel, France)
Date:
1944
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Religious forces are in fact only transfigured collective forces, that is, moral forces; they are made of ideas and feelings that the…
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Émile Durkheim
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1911
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Some time ago it became known that Knut Hamsun was in the habit of expressing his views in an occasional letter to the editor of the local paper in the small town near which he…
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Walter Benjamin
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
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1934
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Ashkenaz, a descendant of the sons of Noah, grandson of Japheth, son of Gomer (Genesis 10:3).
It was in a rather ancient period in the history of the diaspora that the term Ashkenazim, or descendants…
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Arnold Mandel
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1972
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Piotr Rawicz’s Blood from the Sky is without question the most forceful of recent novels written about the fate of Jews in Nazi Europe. There has been rare critical unanimity in this respect. To find…
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Anna Langfus
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1961
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At last you admit that Israel, caught up in the wave of technical progress, is becoming an industrial society “like the others.” You find it acceptable that the Jews, transformed in the…
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Georges Friedmann
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1965