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We Jews, the first nation in the world that began not only to mark but also to appraise and to judge the generations, evaluate eras on the basis of different criteria, namely, how much refinement is…
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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If there is one branch of study that is entirely neglected in our schools it is the history of our forefathers from the time of their dispersion across the globe until the present. . . . [True,] our…
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Mercado Joseph Covo
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1892
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911
Dear Mrs. N.,
I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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1911
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Dina has reached the age of seventeen, but her mind and manners are far beyond those years. She is comely and demure and full of charm. Two modest eyes and two wild braids. Why wild? Because they have…
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Shoshana Shababo
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940
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One must hurry to grasp it; yesterday, it did not exist; tomorrow it will be no more. Yesterday there were Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccans, discovered by…
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Henri Chemouilli
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1972
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Now I shall come to fulfill your desire by writing to you at length about the customs of the residents of the land of Israel; for although I also wrote to you by way of the pilgrims, and I sent them…
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Israel of Perugia
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1517–1523
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We shall now sum up the different opinions as regards the arrival of the Jews on Chinese soil.
The missionaries reported that the Jews believe, according to a tradition, that their ancestors came to…
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Adolph Neubauer
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1895
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The religious ideal that forms the basis of Judaism and that should remain ever present in our Jewish hearts creates no conflict with the requirements of citizenship.
It is true that in the past we…
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Alexander Benghiat
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İzmir, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
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1897
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When, in 1492, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon expelled believers in the unity of God, those very same Catholic rulers simultaneously financed Columbus’s discovery of the New…
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Francisco Rivas Puigcerver
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Mexico City, Mexico
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1889
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Let us first of all point out that the establishment of a universal religion, Judaism’s ultimate aim, necessitated an exceptional strictness and severity in the particularities of Jewish religious…
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Elijah Benamozegh
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(France, France)
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1900