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When I last occupied this pulpit I spoke on the text, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” I tried to indicate some of the stages by which this maxim became the Golden Rule of conduct, until it…
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Israel Abrahams
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
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1895
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We shall now sum up the different opinions as regards the arrival of the Jews on Chinese soil.The missionaries reported that the Jews believe, according to a tradition, that their ancestors came to…
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Adolph Neubauer
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Oxford, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (Oxford, United Kingdom)
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1895
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Don Francisco Lopes Suasso (Abraham Israel Suasso, 1657–1710) was born in Amsterdam, the oldest child of wealthy Portuguese Jewish banker Antonio Lopes Suasso. Francisco followed in his father’s…
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Bernard de Jongere Lens
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1717
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This portrait of David Nieto was printed by James McArdell after a painting by David Esteves, London. David Nietostudied medicine in Padua and initially served as physician, preacher, and rabbinic…
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James McArdell, David Esteves
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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ca. 1745–1765
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A political sect has sprung up avowedly adverse to the Estates of the Realm, and seeking by means which, of course, it holds legal, the abrogation of a majority of them. These anti-constitutional…
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Benjamin Disraeli
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London, United Kingdom
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1835
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As the first and most beautiful relationship in which woman is undeniably necessary to man—the object of his first affections, to whom he owes all of cherishing, happiness, and health, from infancy to…
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Grace Aguilar
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Brighton, United Kingdom
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1844
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Not here in our London Ghetto the gates and gaberdines of the olden Ghetto of the Eternal City; yet no lack of signs external by which one may know it, and those who dwell therein. Its narrow…
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Israel Zangwill
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
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1892
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The science of Folk-lore tries to explain in a scientific way the origin, growth and development of popular literature; it discovers the sources from which the popular fancy has drawn its materials…
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Moses Gaster
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Oxford, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (Oxford, United Kingdom)
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1886
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Vera [Agitated, coming nearer]:Irony, Mr. Quixano? Please, please, do not imagine there is any irony in my congratulations.David:The irony is in all the congratulations. How can I endure them when I…
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Israel Zangwill
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1908
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[T]he Iewish Nation, though scattered through the whole World, are not therefore a despisable people, but as a Plant worthy to be planted in the whole world, received into Populous Cities: who aught…
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Menasseh Ben Israel, Shalom Italia
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London, Kingdom of England (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1655