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My brothers, my children, and my friends know this: I understood with great clarity that the True One, whom I alone have known for many generations and for whom I have strived so much, wants me to…
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David de Castro Tartas, Shabbetai Tzvi
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1666
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[Sabbatai’s] illumination grew steadily more intense up to the thirteenth day of the month of Adar [23 February]. On that day his brother came for a stay, along with four of Vani Effendi’s men.…
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Jacob Najara
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1671
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PrefaceSince through the good Hand of GOD upon me, he has not only taken Moses’s Vail from me, but even has Placed me in his Service, i.e. to Teach and Promote the Knowledge of the Hebrew Tongue at…
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Judah Monis
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Boston, Kingdom of Great Britain (Boston, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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This will be the first of my addresses before the Zionist Congresses to deal not with the various questions involved in the upbuilding of Palestine but with the significance of…
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Arthur Ruppin
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1929
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Today in Germany it seems Jewish assimilation must declare its bankruptcy. The general social antisemitism and its official legitimation affects in the first instance assimilated Jews, who can no…
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Hannah Arendt
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1933
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The life and literary undertakings of Isaac Orobio de Castro are symbolic of the fate and fortunes of the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi diaspora in seventeenth-century western Europe. His passage…
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Yosef Kaplan
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1982
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Certainly, dearest parents, I know what is commonly the result of the influence of education and of misunderstood religion, but is it possible that you could hate your son because he harbors other…
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Michael Joseph Edler von Arnstein
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1783
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Community. From the point of view of religious practices, the Jewish community of Hamadan is one of the least homogeneous of Persia. It is not unusual to find in the same family a mother who is a…
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Albert Confino
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Qajar, Sublime State of Iran (Qajar Āb-e Bālā, Iran)
Date:
1908