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I hear it said: On the contrary, inasmuch as the things most essential for the life of a people have been forcibly taken from our people’s soul, and we stand miraculously in midair like the mem and…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Berlin, Germany
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1897
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Change has been so rapid, in fact, that American Jews in their twenties and thirties inhabit a completely different world from that in which their parents grew up.
The essence of the change is that…
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Charles E. Silberman
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New York, United States of America
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1985
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But what about the future? Does the American-Jewish community possess those traits and characteristics which, as we know from the experience of a dozen Diaspora communities over two thousand years…
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Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
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New York, United States of America
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1953
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[ . . . V]iewed from the broad historic perspective, it is not at all surprising that American Jewry has not yet produced those great cultural achievements for which we are all…
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Salo W. Baron
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New York, United States of America
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1962
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The attempt I have made to realign these concepts does not, of course, do away with the conflicts, tensions, cultural struggles, and constant inputs and reequilibrations of problems of identity. All…
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A. B. Yehoshua
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1980
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America has, in less than one generation, become the second largest center of the Jewish Diaspora, and bids fair to become the first, instead of the second, within another generation. No other country…
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Israel Friedländer
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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Question:In America there is now a notable general rise in religion. The membership of religious organizations has grown, religious gatherings attract a larger audience, etc. Likewise in Jewish life…
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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New York, United States of America
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1954
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The Jewish community as a whole is a unique blend of kinship and consent. […] The fact that Jews are born Jewish places them in a special position to begin with, one that more often than not has…
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Daniel J. Elazar
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1976