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With the same character, with which the individual human being is born, with the same he descends into the grave. The kindly disposed does not become ill-disposed, the judicious does not become…
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Daniel Khvolson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1871
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What we have to do at present for the regeneration of the Jewish nation is, first, to keep alive the hope of the political rebirth of our people, and next, to reawaken that hope where it slumbers…
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Moses Hess
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Leipzig, German Confederation
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1862
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Artist Unknown
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1831
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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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The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews.
Why do we call ourselves Jews? Because we are Jews? What does that mean: we are Jews? I…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1911
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I want to profess straight off that I am a Jew. Does it require justification if I write in a spirit other than that of defending the Jews? Many of my fellow tribesmen know themselves only as Germans…
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Walter Rathenau
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1897
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The strongest testimony to life is productivity, and the most direct form of productivity is art. That is why those of us who announce a life of the Jewish people inquire into the possibility of…
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Martin Buber
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1901
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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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French and Russian they matter not,
A blow for a blow and a shot for a shot;
We love them not, we hate them not.
We hold the Weichsel and Vosges-gate,
We have but one—and only hate,
We love as one…
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Ernst Lissauer
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(Germany, Germany)
Date:
1914