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The slaughter and plunder in Kishinev, the likes of which have not descended upon us since the days of Chmielnicki and Gonta—command us to open our eyes and see our status in this country…
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Union of Jewish Writers (, Ben-Ami, Simon , Yehoshu‘a Ḥana , Chaim Nahman )
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Kishinev, Russian Empire (Chisinau, Moldova)
Date:
1903
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But would not the existence of a Jewish State, or the efforts to establish it, bring into suspicion the Jews’ patriotism in other countries, or even cause them to be driven to the new State? No more…
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Israel Zangwill
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Manchester, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (Greater Manchester, United Kingdom)
Date:
1905
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The echo that Marx’s writing arouses in Jews’ hearts provides clearer evidence [of Marx’s influence on Judaism].
As everybody knows, a Jewish proletariat did not exist during Marx’s lifetime…
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Zalman Shazar
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1918
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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-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1894
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Among the living nations of the earth the Jews occupy the position of a nation long since dead. With the loss of their fatherland, the Jews lost their independence and fell into a state of decay…
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Leon Pinsker
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Russia)
Date:
1882
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We received the following appeal addressed to the German citizens of Jewish faith with the request to publish it:
For the past two decades, a movement has disquieted our fatherland whose ultimate…
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Central Union of the German Citizens of the Jewish Faith
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1893
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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
Date:
1932
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Five years have passed since that mournful 5th of March, which witnessed the so-called election of Hitler as Chancellor of the German Reich. It might long have been foreseen and perhaps even averted…
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Stephen S. Wise
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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“The Final Solution of the Jewish Question” was the code name assigned by the German bureaucracy to the annihilation of the Jews. The very composition of the code name, when analyzed, reveals its…
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Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1975
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Things have changed since we last met. Some of your friends have already reached their homeland; others are soon to follow. Once opened, the gates will not shut again. Nothing will ever be the same as…
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Elie Wiesel
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1977