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Pave the way! Pave the way!More than twenty years have passed since the idea that we now call Zionism began to reawaken among the Jews, though its essence and intensity had never ceased among the…
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Ze’ev Yavetz
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1902
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The library should be set up in the center of the district it serves, preferably on a quiet street where there is less noise and dust. Dry premises must…
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OPE (Society for Promotion of Culture Among Jews in Russia)
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
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1914
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It is not uncommon to find children of Jewish socialists with first names like “William Morris,” “Lassalle,” or “Bebel.” But we will definitely not find any children named after Karl Marx.
Morris…
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Borukh Charney-Vladek
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New York, United States of America
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1918
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Five years have passed since that mournful 5th of March, which witnessed the so-called election of Hitler as Chancellor of the German Reich. It might long have been foreseen and perhaps even averted…
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Stephen S. Wise
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New York City, United States of America
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1938
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The first Po‘ale Tsiyon group in Poltava was born out of the theoretical battle between Zionism and the journal Iskra [the organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party]. Up until 1905, [Dov Ber]…
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Yaakov Zerubavel
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1921
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[ . . . ] I wrote yesterday to my friend, the illustrious rabbi, our teacher, Rabbi S. Ahronson, and to Rabbi Meir Hildesheimer himself, may his light shine, in a sharp tone, making it clear that I…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
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Vilna, Republic of Lithuania
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1934
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The two hundred and fifty letters presented here require no preliminaries or commentary. No human language is adequate to the task. Even the account of our people’s history, drenched as…
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Berakha Ḥabas
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1943
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September 7, 1912. The French enter Marrakesh. Marching through the Djema el Fna Square, surrounded by his general staff, Colonel Mangin is surprised to hear, amid the discordant noises of the crowd…
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José Bénech
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Marrakesh, French Protectorate in Morocco
(Morocco)
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1940
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Information juive is back. For nearly fourteen years it was, under the aegis of the Jewish Algerian Committee for Social Studies, the voice of a community of almost 150,000 souls in Algeria; it…
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Jacques Lazarus
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1963
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This appraisal of the west has remained Toynbee’s considered judgment. “In my eyes,” he states in the last volume of A Study of History, published in 1961, “the west is a…
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Elie Kedourie
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1970