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At this moment in world history anti-Semitism is not manifesting itself with the full and violent destructiveness of which we know it to be capable. Even a social disease has its periods of quiescence…
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Max Horkheimer, Samuel H. Flowerman
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New York, United States of America
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1950
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One of the most amusing features of modern Marx-criticism is the grave discussion by the critics, of the question whether or not Marx…
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Louis Boudin
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1906
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On the twenty-fourth day of the counting [of the Omer] may there be tranquility and pleasantness in your chamber of Torah. The handmaids of the emperor’s house would sing his praises: “no eye-shadow…
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Solomon Luria
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Mid–16th Century
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On the thirty-third day of the counting [of the Omer, i.e., Lag b’Omer]. May there be tranquility and pleasantness in your chamber of Torah. May God continuously save the beautiful pearl, for whom the…
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Moses Isserles
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Mid–16th Century
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Love:I see, Brother, that my being and perfection depend entirely on your perfection; and since the perfection of the object you have conceived…
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Baruch Spinoza
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1661
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In a phrase of Hermann Cohen, Maimonides is the “classic of rationalism” in Judaism. This phrase appears to us to be correct in a stricter sense than Cohen may have intended: Maimonides’…
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Leo Strauss
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Cambridge, United States of America
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1935
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The Jews are probably the only people in the world to whom it has ever been proposed that their historic destiny is—to be nice. This singular concept has played such an important role in…
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Maurice Samuel
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New York City, United States of America
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1932
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[ . . . ] That the status of the Jews in Europe has been not only that of an oppressed people but also of what Max Weber has called a “pariah people” is a fact most clearly appreciated by those who…
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Hannah Arendt
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1944
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In attempting this psychological presentation and a psychopathological explanation of the typical characteristics of a concentration camp inmate, I may give the impression that the human being is…
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Viktor E. Frankl
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Vienna, Allied-occupied Austria (Vienna, Austria)
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1946
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In most of the current reflections on the relation between philosophy and society, it is somehow taken for granted that philosophy always possessed political or social status. According to F arabi…
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Leo Strauss
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Chicago, United States of America
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1952