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For it is not against me that these men have sinned, for what am I and what is my life? My days have passed like a transient shadow, and fly away as does a dream—like a dream upon…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1755
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Has he had the temerity to speak perversely against the foundations of the faith and of the Torah, and mocked the words of our sages of blessed memory recorded in the Mishnah and the Gemara, or has he…
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Saul Berlin
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1784
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You should know and believe me, and understand, that I did not become zealous against the scoffers for my own glory, or for the glory of my father’s house, but that it was zeal for the Almighty that…
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Jacob Emden
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
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1762
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Earlier on we have clearly shown that the animal soul does not consist of blood and how much less so the human soul, since the latter is an incorporeal substance, invisible and incorruptible, whereas…
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Samuel da Silva
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1623
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But all this came to an end one night. In almost every one of his novels, Warszawski retells the scene in the winter of 1944 when he came home at three o’clock in the morning, after a night of dancing…
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Maxim Biller
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1990
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Our friend’s devotion to Spinozism is not to be seen as a mere hypothesis (as the Patriarch in Nathan puts it), postulated simply in order to discuss its pros and cons. Herr Jacobi, a man of…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1786
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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan
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Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany)
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Late 14th to early 15th Century