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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…
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Karl Kraus
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German Empire (Germany, Germany)
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1910
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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…
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Ludwig Strauss
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Berlin, German Empire (Germany)
Munich, German Empire (Germany)
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1912
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October 10, 1912 Berlin-Grunewald Delbrückstr. 23 Dear Mr. Strauß!That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1912
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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…
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Sara Rabinowitsch
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1903
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Unity and Development
Judaism can look back upon a history of some thousands of years. During this period it has learned much and experienced much. Its thought always…
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Leo Baeck
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1905
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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…
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Eugen Fuchs
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1912
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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…
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Ismar Elbogen
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913
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§181. In contradistinction to ritual holiness we have what has been called ethical holiness. The former is merely symbolic of an order of existence higher…
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Moritz Lazarus
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1898
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A fourth dream, occurring shortly after the last one mentioned, brings me back to Rome. I see a street-corner before me and am astonished to see so many German placards posted there. On the day before…
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Sigmund Freud
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1899
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The best of the Western Jews have gradually become used to talking about the existence of a Jewish people as if it were a logical and historically proven fact.
But they have not yet arrived at the…
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Fritz Kaufmann
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913