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The position of the Jewish woman in Germany today cannot be ascertained from understanding the present alone. A brief look at the recent and distant past—perhaps even the long-distant past—is…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1935
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Now let us see whether the economic factor has influenced the history of our people in Europe, and in what ways this influence can be seen. [ . . . ]
In the final analysis, the Jews were necessary in…
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Ḥayim Horowitz
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1899
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New and hitherto unknown words have entered our dictionary. These words can now be heard at gatherings, and even more in private conversations, and sometimes we read them in the press. And if, until…
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Moshe Beilinson
Places:
Petah Tikvah, Mandate Palestine
(Petaẖ Tiqva, Israel)
Date:
1927
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If it hadn’t been for Hitler there would be no Israel. If there had been no Holocaust there would be no Jewish State today. How often this line of reasoning is used! Even the German-British writer…
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Michael Wolffsohn
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Munich, West Germany
(Munich, Germany)
Date:
1988
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Social and judicial reforms will not solve the universal Jewish question, nor will they bring an answer to the Hungarian Jewish question; they can only solve internal technical issues, which, as we…
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Ármin Beregi
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Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1917
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The best of the Western Jews have gradually become used to talking about the existence of a Jewish people as if it were a logical and historically proven fact.
But they have not yet arrived at the…
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Fritz Kaufmann
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913
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The educated Englishman can live his entire life without ever once giving a moment’s thought to his people’s historical destiny or purpose. He knows instinctively that his people are alive and intact…
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Mikhail Gershenzon
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1922
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Six million perished not because of a cataclysm of nature, as is evoked by use of that inadequate term “holocaust”; they died not because they lacked courage, but because they lacked the minimum…
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Amos Elon
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1971
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Not too long ago, few Jews—or Christians, for that matter—would have had difficulty justifying the existence of a Jewish state. The destruction of European Jewry left a profound impression on the…
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Yoram Hazony
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New York City, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
2000
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In 1947, when Kurt Weill’s orchestral arrangement of Hatikva received its world premiere in New York, it was still—as it had been for decades—the anthem of the modern Zionist movement, expressing the…
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Neil W. Levin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2004