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Dear Sir,
You ask me to write extensively about my life. As far as I can, I will gladly do so, but, unfortunately, I won’t be able to do all that much. Here are the reasons: maybe for future…
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Ludwik Zamenhof
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1905
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Given the socioeconomic life-conditions that obtain in the capitalist countries, the Jewish national group [folk-grupe]—as a people without its own national economy—will inevitably always feel a sharp…
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Po‘ale Tsiyon Central Committee
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1905
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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
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Social and judicial reforms will not solve the universal Jewish question, nor will they bring an answer to the Hungarian Jewish question; they can only solve internal technical issues, which, as we…
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Ármin Beregi
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1917
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The [Babylonian] Talmud in tractate Sanhedrin [109b] brings a statement that when a stranger came to the city of Sodom, he would be placed on a bed. Someone who was taller than the bed would have his…
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Yitsḥak Morganstern
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Sokolov, Russian Empire (Sokolov, Czech Republic)
Date:
1918
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Not fire and sun—but our blood will redden, Oh Zion, your mountains—
Right after disembarking and finishing my business with the numruk [custom house], I hurried to Petah Tikva. My friends implored…
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David Ben-Gurion
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1921
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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
Date:
1926
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I was out of the cavern no more than a minute, taking a last look around the square at the minarets, the moon, the domes, the Wall, when someone was shouting at me, “It’s you!”
Standing in my path was…
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Philip Roth
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1986
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Not too long ago, few Jews—or Christians, for that matter—would have had difficulty justifying the existence of a Jewish state. The destruction of European Jewry left a profound impression on the…
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Yoram Hazony
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2000
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[…] That we in Israel are in need of a dose of Jewish soul—that this, as much as sheer survival, with which it is in no small way connected, is a pressing issue of our existence—I readily concede. But…
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Hillel Halkin
Places:
Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel
Date:
1976