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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1780
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There is one people in the world alone who are not sufficiently concerned with “human knowledge” and who have neglected the public instruction of their youth in the laws of etiquette, the sciences and…
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Naphtali Herts Wessely
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1782
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We gratefully acknowledge the signs of munificence shown to us by His Majesty’s government which has officially licensed our periodical, Sha‘are mizraḥ. We understand that this benevolence of His…
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Rafael Uziel
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1846
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What is Judaism if not an ethical monotheism? The answer is that it is not an “ism” at all, despite the last syllable in its name. It is a living soul or consciousness; it is the soul or consciousness…
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Mordecai M. Kaplan
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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Three liberating moments in Jewish history created our movement.
I don’t want to be a prophet, and to proclaim that we are now experiencing a new historical moment, that we are…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Date:
1908
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One hundred and odd years ago, the walls that imprisoned us Jews in a mental ghetto fell, torn down by Christian advocates of human rights who are assured of our eternal gratitude. After having been…
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Moritz Goldstein
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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I have always regretted one thing. When I ponder the Hebrew literature of all periods I ask myself: Why is it that our forefathers, who spent so much time on the study of matters of religion and law…
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Simon Dubnov
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1891
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We are speaking of the Jewish Renaissance. By this we understand the peculiar and basically inexplicable phenomenon of the progressive rejuvenation of the Jewish people in language, customs, and art…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1905
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Jacob Meyer de Haan
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1889–1892
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Katherine M. Cohen
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1906