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Theology teaches us that when God the Eternal formed man He gave him an extra rib. This rib was destined for the formation of woman in order that this creature, who was to become the rich…
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Elissa Lisbonne
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Avignon, Second French Empire (Avignon, France)
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1865
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Since the theme of the Noachide commandments has arisen for consideration, I shall mention here what I presented before the assembly of rabbis in the great city [Paris] in the year 5567 [1807], and it…
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Aaron Worms of Metz
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Metz, Kingdom of France (Metz, France)
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1831
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The Jews are everywhere, in the old world and in the new. They can be found in Jamaica, in New England, in Washington’s America as well as in Bolívar’s, and even in Austral lands. If this people were…
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Léon Halévy
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
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1828
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Why does the name of Orpheus, “the first of the world’s singers,” as Lefranc de Pompignan called him, appear on the title-page of this volume? Because he was not merely “the first singer,”…
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Salomon Reinach
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1909
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The French Revolution wherever it penetrates, and in France above all, opens to Judaism a new era, in a double sense, material and moral.
On one hand, by breaking down the barrier between the Jew and…
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James Darmesteter
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French Republic (France, France)
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1894
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To make the history of antisemitism complete, omitting none of the manifestations of this sentiment and following its divers phases and modifications, it is necessary to go into the history of Israel…
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Bernard Lazare
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1894
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It was in the early eighteenth century (1700–1706) when some Ottoman Jews of Spanish and Portuguese origin left Turkey to settle in Vienna. A chronicle has preserved for us the names of the three…
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Moïse Franco
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1897
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In all times of transition such as the one we are now undergoing, on every occasion when human society passes from one era to another era, from one way of doing things to another way of doing them…
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Joseph Salvador
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Paris, French Empire (Paris, France)
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1860