A Society to Further Jewish Integration
Eduard Gans
1822
The way in which the Jewish world will merge into the European follows from the above-mentioned principle. To merge does not mean to perish [aufgehen ist nicht untergehen]. Only the obstinate, self-centered independence of the Jews will be destroyed, not that element which becomes a part of the whole, serving the totality, this element shall lose…
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