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I swear by the Eternal God and by His ten most holy commandments, which were given on Mount Sinai through Moses as lawgiver after the people had been freed from their bondage in Egypt, that I have…
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Nicolas de Nicolay, Francesco Ziletti, Amatus Lusitanus
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1559
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The figurative underworld of a great city has no ventilation, housing or lighting problems. Rooks and crooks who live in the putrid air of crime are not denied the light of day, even though they…
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Fannie Hurst
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1915
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The memoir published here is a substantial and valuable addition to the scientific literature on cases of erroneous sex determination. For the first time, an intelligent person gives an exhaustive…
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Magnus Hirschfield
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1907
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Bernhardi:I beg your pardon, gentlemen; a visitor whom I have to receive. Please dine—Oscar, have the kindness—
[All enter the dining-room. Bernhardi closes the door and pulls the portiere. Enter Pr…
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Arthur Schnitzler
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1912
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The Ḥaydakim [Bacteria] and Their Characteristics[ . . . ] There are grounds for thinking that, apart from the absence of alcoholism, there are also race factors among Jews that play a certain role…
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Mordechai Borochov
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1913
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The Gentiles abuse us and say that we are a foolish nation, not a wise one. They consequently slander the words of our sages, and say that whoever studies them becomes divorced from the norms of…
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Baruch ben Jacob (Baruch of Shklov) Schick
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1780
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One day I came back from my synagogue and sat down in my room to take breakfast—a bowl of milk and some bread, instead of the compote juice and butter cake that had been my customary…
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Mordechai Aaron Gintsburg
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1863
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When bloodletting is done at the right time, and when there is need for it, it promotes the health of the person, as I shall write about, God willing. When bloodletting is…
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Issachar Baer Teller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1655
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Abortion is not murder, vociferous and repeated claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Abortion cannot be murder in Jewish law, because, as indicated above, murder is one of the three “cardinal” sins…
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David M. Feldman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1986
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Jacob Meyer de Haan
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
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1889–1892