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Five years have passed since that mournful 5th of March, which witnessed the so-called election of Hitler as Chancellor of the German Reich. It might long have been foreseen and perhaps even averted…
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Stephen S. Wise
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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The history of the Jews in the last century and a half has turned about one central fact: that of Emancipation. But what has Emancipation really meant to the Jew? The generally accepted view has it…
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Salo W. Baron
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New York City, United States of America
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1928
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Hebrew reborn—but, was it ever dead? Or, if it was, how can a dead language be born again?
The millions of Jews all over the world who say their daily prayers in Hebrew, not only understanding but…
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Shalom Spiegel
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1930
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The shtetl, lost here among Polish fields and groves, might be called Turek or Przasnysz, Konin or Maków, yet what one remembers is not the name but the old marketplace reeking of tar and dung where a…
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Sofia Dubnova-Erlich
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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[ . . . V]iewed from the broad historic perspective, it is not at all surprising that American Jewry has not yet produced those great cultural achievements for which we are all…
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Salo W. Baron
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1962
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2. What was it that made for the peculiar position of the Jews in the Middle Ages and later, until emancipation came along? It was the ghetto, we are told and told again, which was at the root of…
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Max Weinreich
Places:
The Hague, Netherlands
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1967
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Photographs shock us in so far as they show us something novel. Unfortunately, the ante keeps getting raised—partly through the very proliferation of such images of horror. One’s first encounter with…
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Susan Sontag
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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What I am trying to suggest is that, different as the immediately present objects were in each case, Torah for the Rabbis, Nature for Wordsworth, there existed for the Rabbis and for Wordsworth a…
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Lionel Trilling
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London, United Kingdom
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1950
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Reform Judaism is a phenomenon of man’s restless spirit. At its best it is a dynamic faith—and its very dynamism…
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W. Gunther Plaut
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New York City, United States of America
(Toronto, Canada)
Date:
1963
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The debate in 1978 was not cathartic. It was just the opposite. Here we have something of a textbook example of the reciprocity between the present and collective memory…
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Anita Shapira
Places:
Bloomington, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
2000