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Jewish statistics began 3,000 years ago. But for the first time since the dispersion of the Jewish people an organization has been formed in their midst that has set itself the goal to produce a…
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Alfred Nossig
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1903
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All philosophy—understood in the widest sense as awe before and research into the inexplicable secrets and the inner coherence of the world—is meaningful not for the sake of knowledge but as a form of…
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Hans Kohn
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1913
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A healthy mind lives in a healthy body!This old Latin adage never received proper attention among us Jews, although we do not doubt its truth. Accepted in theory, its thought did not…
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Hermann Jalowicz
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1900
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Since Judaism is law, the doubts of the Jewish youth are not an evil, at least per se they are not an evil. If Judaism were only instruction, the doubts raised by the instruction would…
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Isaac Breuer
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1910
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Is there a Jewish people? Thousands of Jews, whose language at school and in daily discourse is Hebrew, are again living in Palestine. Neo-Hebrew literature has essayists like Ahad Ha-Am, poets like B…
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Ludwig Strauss
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Berlin, German Empire
(Munich, Germany)
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1912
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October 10, 1912 Berlin-Grunewald Delbrückstr. 23 Dear Mr. Strauß!That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1912
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The best of the Western Jews have gradually become used to talking about the existence of a Jewish people as if it were a logical and historically proven fact.
But they have not yet arrived at the…
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Fritz Kaufmann
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1913
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Today, the Sherit Hapleita has an ideology of its own—this despite the fact that in its outlook on life, in its politics, and its culture, the group is no more unified and no less divided than other…
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Samuel Gringauz
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New York City, Allied-occupied Germany
(Germany)
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1947
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To the Committee of the Zionist Organization in Berlin
Salonica, January 3, 1913
Mr. President,
The question of Macedonia was addressed in London and will soon be resolved. What will be done with…
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David Florentin
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1913
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It is necessary to remember that hatred is constantly in human society directed and discharged against persons who could not possibly have been guilty of causing it.…
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Peretz (Friedrich) Bernstein
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1926