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French Republic (Normandy, France)
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1893
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In a phrase of Hermann Cohen, Maimonides is the “classic of rationalism” in Judaism. This phrase appears to us to be correct in a stricter sense than Cohen may have intended: Maimonides’…
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Leo Strauss
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Cambridge, United States of America
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1935
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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
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Boris Schatz
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1911
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Hatred can never be good. (Spinoza, Ethics)
The spirit of politics has perhaps never before embraced people as tightly as today. There is an increase in social awareness. The class division of society…
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1932
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Moses Mendelssohn’s German Philosophy did not survive him and his generation of the German Aufklärer. As the leading German philosopher, apart from some psychological and aesthetical theories, he…
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Simon Rawidowicz
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1936
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During the thousands of years of its history, Judaism has learned and experienced a good deal. In its people the commanding urge to think further, to struggle with ideas, has…
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Leo Baeck
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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Socrates’ defence was very carefully heard in the presence of the Academicians in the public assembly over a few days, and it produced no little disquiet in the minds of the judges, whose minds turned…
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Simone Luzzatto
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1651
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The term “past image” is used by different scholars in different ways, and it remains general and obscure because it refers to a structure derived from a bank of naturally amorphous reserves, seen by…
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Zohar Shavit
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1999
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The Talmud is one of the great, classical writings of human civilization—enduring, influential, nourishing. It claims its place among the most successful pieces of writing in the history of humanity…
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Jacob Neusner
Places:
Annandale-on-Hudson, United States of America
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1997