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I cannot express my thanks to the German Book Trade for the honor conferred on me without at the same time setting forth the sense in which I have accepted it, just as I earlier accepted the Hanseatic…
One may think about Zionism as one wishes: one may consider it an aberration or an idea that has a claim on the future; one may regard it from the heights of a fantastical cosmopolitanism as a…
Anyone arriving from Western Europe by steamship to Mohilev for the first time will be struck on the dock by nothing as much as by the enormous throng of…
The Four Sections of Jewry Jewish AssimilationNumber. Typical Representatives.Economic Condition.Religious Outlook.EducationBirth- rate per 1,000 souls.Percentage of Mixed Marriages.Conversions…
But Heinrich Heine—even the aesthetes who are rescuing his immortality in an island publishing house (these gloriously impractical minds whose cerebral wrinkles trail away into ornament) have nothing…
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…
October 10, 1912Berlin-GrunewaldDelbrückstr. 23 Dear Mr. Strauß!That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…
The behavior of the Jews in most places generally follows the behavior of the [local] Christians—(Sefer ḥasidim [Book of the Pious, 13th century] § 1106)
The present volume is a continuation…
We want to scrape off the eggshells of the ghetto and live as children of the present in the midst of German intellectual life, but without breaking with our past and shaking off the legitimate…
The task of this book was determined by its being part of the Grundriß [der Gesamtwissenschaft des Judentums; Fundamental Study toward the Comprehensive Knowledge of Judaism] series. Based on…