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The polemical Judeo-Spanish work (written in Hebrew characters) Fuente clara (Clear Fountain; drawing on Psalm 84) was published in Salonika. Its anonymous author, a philosopher and physician…
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Unknown
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1595
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The Lord spoke once more to His beloved people on the occasion of our teacher Moses wishing to see His divine glory: no man shall…
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Isaac Orobio de Castro
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1670
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One must not close one’s ears to the heretic, as the orthodox can easily open his eyes. For this reason, pressure and punishment should never be used against any religion. Debates are useful. But…
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Abraham Gómez Silveira
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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End of the 17th or Beginning of the 18th Century
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In early winter 1998, I set out to discover my country, the Holy Land. My pilgrimage was an attempt at religious empathy: I was hoping to encounter, as an Israeli Jew, my Christian and Muslim…
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Yossi Klein Halevi
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New York City, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
2001
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More than twenty-five centuries have passed since an anonymous Jewish poet wrote an elaborate and lengthy prayer that included this exclamation:O how I love your teaching!It is my study all day long (…
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Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler
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College Park, United States of America
Date:
2004
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Dark-faced foreigners have flooded the city. They go about rushing through the boulevards, but in the suburbs they already stop to congregate, talk in a strong and loud voice, heavily gesticulating. I…
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Sándor Bródy
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Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1915
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Henryk (Hanokh) Barcinski
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Lodz, Second Polish Republic
(Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1919
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Abel Pann
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1945
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The mass mind is eminently retentive. Man, in Nietzsche’s definition, is the being with the longest memory, and José Ortega y Gasset has recently affirmed (in his Toward a Philosophy of History) the…
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Joshua Trachtenberg
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1943
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The purpose of this book is to bring into focus the vast number and wide variety of data concerning Judaism and the Jews, so that they can be seen in relation to one another and to the…
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Louis Finkelstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1949