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The Dreyfus trial transformed me into a Zionist. Not the current one in Rennes, but the original one in Paris that I witnessed in 1894. I was living in Paris then as a journalist and attended the…
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Theodor Herzl
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1899
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The Jewish question may be resolved through a new philosophical synthesis and a true reform of moral and religious life for Jews and Christians alike. Just as we must admit that we need reforms across…
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Viktor Vohryzek
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1904
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The purpose of the Jewish University is to offer Jewish youth the opportunity to obtain an education:
- A. In the general higher disciplines with special consideration given to the Wissenschaft des…
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Martin Buber, Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann
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1902
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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)
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1913
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It is necessary to remember that hatred is constantly in human society directed and discharged against persons who could not possibly have been guilty of causing it.…
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Peretz (Friedrich) Bernstein
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
Berlin, Germany
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1926
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The hope for a better society and the despair of solitude, both of which are founded on experiences that claim to be self-evident, seem to be in an insurmountable antagonism. There…
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Emmanuel Levinas
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1947
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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, United States of America
Chicago, United States
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1906
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Anyone who says that our Hebrew literature has developed, expanded, and been enriched over the past few years either errs or misleads. Or, perhaps, they demand very little from literature in general…
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Reuven Brainin
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Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
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1894
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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