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Ephraim Moses Lilien
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Basel, Switzerland
Date:
1901
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(Written at the end of 1939 in Havana—with thoughts about Poland)
Our poor nest eternally atremble
in the wind.
What will happen now, in bloody storm,
mayn kind?
Now, in bloody storm . . . ?
The…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
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1939
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Whoever reads Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, his letters, and even his Hebrew grammar, will recognize and avow that Spinoza was, relative to his times in Amsterdam, if not a great scholar…
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Joseph Klausner
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1927
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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
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Munich, Germany)
Date:
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)
Date:
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
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
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
Places:
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1926
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“A negative attitude toward the diaspora” is an expression frequently heard in discussions between the Zionists, who look beyond the diaspora for a solution to our national problem, and the…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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1909
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Is Israel alone a dying nation? Numerous civilizations have disappeared before there emerged the one in which we live so happily and unhappily at the same time. Each dying civilization was confident…
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Simon Rawidowicz
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1948