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Proverbs are the wisdom of the people, the fruit of common sense, and in particular, are distilled from general experience. They are to the moral…
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Leopold Dukes
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Leipzig, German Confederation (Leipzig, Germany)
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1844
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For the two reasons specified below, I have given myself the surname “Wasserzug”; the first reason is that when I was five or six years of age, I was playing with some young children, I believe, in a…
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Moses Wasserzug
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Płock, Kingdom of Prussia (Płock, Poland)
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ca. 1820
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Note: The word “religion” is not biblical. It is taken over from paganism, where it does not include the factor of freedom. People disagree as to whether it is derived from religere or relegere; about…
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Samuel Hirsch
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1842
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All this heavy misfortune persuaded Maximilian to think earnestly and independently about the problem of Mexico and his throne. I say independently and lay particular emphasis on the word because I…
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Samuel Siegfried Karl von Basch
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Leipzig, German Confederation (Leipzig, Germany)
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1868
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They [the hasidim] study Kabbalah and Talmud diligently and successfully, and consequently they have among them excellent Talmud scholars. They also comprise three groups, each of them under one chief…
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Bonaventura Mayer
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Regensburg, German Confederation (Regensburg, Germany)
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1842
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In the previous article, I presented you, dear reader, with the essence of the three different approaches existing within our religion, to which I have respectively…
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Fabius Mieses
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Leipzig, German Confederation (Leipzig, Germany)
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1868
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What we have to do at present for the regeneration of the Jewish nation is, first, to keep alive the hope of the political rebirth of our people, and next, to reawaken that hope where it slumbers…
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Moses Hess
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Leipzig, German Confederation (Leipzig, Germany)
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1862
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There are facts of such an overwhelming power that even the most stubborn opinion must yield to them. Such a fact is the origin of Judaism in the midst of rude surroundings, like a vigorous…
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Abraham Geiger
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Frankfort, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1864
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In the evening through her garden
Wanders the Alcalde’s daughter;
Festal sounds of drum and trumpet
Ring out hither from the castle.
“I am weary of the dances,
Honeyed words of adulation
From the…
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Heinrich Heine
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Göttingen, German Confederation (Göttingen, Germany)
Date:
1827
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O God of Hosts, our God from of old,
Was it for this that You selected our ancestors from days of yore
That You took their descendants as an inheritance for Yourself
To set them up as the target of…
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Abraham Dov (Adam) ha-Kohen Lebensohn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1842