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The opportunity for which we have been struggling has come. We have the opportunity of developing a Homeland, but nothing more than an opportunity. It is urgent that we enter upon the work, urgent…
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Louis D. Brandeis
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London, United Kingdom
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1920
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The character of a people, as of an individual, cannot be grasped in its totality. It is recognized by us exclusively in that unfoldment and development in time which we call…
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Hans Kohn
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London, United Kingdom
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1924
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At first the contrast between them must seem very sharp: the first a somewhat fantastic figure, an ambitious opportunist, a social and political adventurer, flamboyant, over-dressed, the epitome of…
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Isaiah Berlin
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Oxford, United Kingdom
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1980
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At the same time, let it be pointed out that this call for a new Hibbat Zion is directed towards the idea rather than the movement, since the historical Hibbat Zion was a movement which failed and an…
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Yosef Gorny
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1994
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He was late.
Under normal circumstances, she would have considered it a minor annoyance, a matter of a dinner grown cold, or a delay in helping the children with their homework, or an errand that…
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Glenn Frankel
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London, United Kingdom
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1999
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We, the screamers, have been at it now for about ten years. We started on the night when the epileptic van der Lubbe set fire to the German Parliament; we said that if you don’t quench those flames at…
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Arthur Koestler
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1944
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Circumcision has so peculiar a veneration among the present Jews, that if all other parts of their Religion were to be changed, this like Mount…
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Lancelot Addison
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Milston, Kingdom of England (Milston, United Kingdom)
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1675
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Half a century has passed since the victory of the Allied troops put an abrupt end to Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question”—but the memory of the Holocaust goes on polluting the world of…
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Zygmunt Bauman
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Leeds, United Kingdom
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1998
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Since the song of victory is silent
About the man now overcome.
I will serve as Hector’s witness.
There once was a Germany, we all know it, that belonged to the world, and that was received by the…
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Leo Baeck
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London, United Kingdom
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1946
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Look: the life and death of this organ [publication] is in your hands. If you wish, it will expand, flourish, and branch out in quality and quantity, and, if you wish, it will dry up, wither, and fade…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
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1906