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Friedrich Georg Weitsch
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1802
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This is the eighteen-hundred-year era of the diaspora, of unprecedented suffering, of uninterrupted martyrdom without parallel in world history. But it is also a period of spiritual alertness, of…
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Heinrich Graetz
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Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (Wrocław, Poland)
Date:
1846
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I recognize no eternal verities save those which not only can be comprehended by the human intellect but can also be demonstrated and confirmed by man’s faculties. It is, however, a misconception of…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1783
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Free of any preoccupations, I allowed myself to seek out and investigate the Jews, their manners and customs. They are good-hearted folk, charitable and hospitable to strangers. They honor the Torah…
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Samuel Romanelli
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1792
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“Back at home, I pulled myself together and reflected on what had happened. Given how the people had behaved when they heard the wrongheaded and hateful rabbi’s curse of excommunication, I realized…
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Ludwig Philippson
Places:
Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia (Magdeburg, Germany)
Date:
1854
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1840
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Gebrüder Henschel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1813
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Aaron:
It’s all a plain lie. It’s because our Jews throughout the land in the little villages are so primitive, so stupid, they can’t even read. Anyone will tell them the most absurd things and they…
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Israel Aksenfeld
Places:
Leipzig, Kingdom of Prussia (Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
Mid-19th Century
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1831