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This work, which I here make public, answers a scholarly need that became evident to me twenty-five years ago, when I was still a young student writing my first book, The Beginning…
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Yitshak (Ignacy) Schiper
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1930
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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
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1926
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The world is wicked. To us Jews—of course and of course. And if we are facing destruction, we must be ready, we must be armed against destruction. Fascism wants to exterminate us. It is a war on death…
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Joseph Opatoshu
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New York City, United States of America
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1938
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The time (in which we live) is truly “a time to work for the Almighty,” and great is the responsibility now falling upon every Jew with the ability to do so. [ . . . ] All the lands of the diaspora…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
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Vilna, Republic of Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1934
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The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century. Modernization is about everyone becoming urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually…
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Yuri Slezkine
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Berkeley, United States of America
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2004
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Berl Katznelson did much to foster the awareness of “Yizkor” and its literature in the twenty years after Tel Hai, through an explicit reference to the chain of Jewish martyrology and heroism and a…
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Emanuel Sivan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1991
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Like many of their Jewish assimilationist parents, many Jews who became active in the Left felt that the best way to deal with anti-Semitism was to convince themselves that if they showed they were…
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Michael Lerner
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Berkeley, United States of America
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1992
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An offshoot of the Nazi counterhistory still lives forth in the various apologetic-polemical exercises known as “revisionist” literature. It is a name given (inter alia) to a distinct group of…
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Amos Funkenstein
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Berkeley, United States of America
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1993
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Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in American economic, cultural, intellectual, and political life. Jews played a central role in American finance during the 1980s, and…
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Benjamin Ginsberg
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Chicago, United States of America
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1993
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When should Jews in one country start protesting about what they perceive as the peril of Jews in another country?
To answer the question, we must first analyze the specific conditions of the…
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Henry I. Sobel
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São Paulo, Brazil
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1982