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Everything, nearly everything, was taken away from us in the ghettos and concentration camps by the great criminals. They did not spare our treasures, both material and spiritual. Even our…
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Israel Kaplan
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Munich, West Germany
(Germany)
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1949
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Part One, in which are shown all the rules necessary for understanding language, how to compose and write therein prose and verse, with the appropriate elegance and measure.
To the Reader:
Although I…
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Moses Gideon Abudiente
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1633
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Thus said the editor [megihah], who bursts forth [megi’aḥ] in prostration from his place, and offers his greeting of peace with a bow and while kneeling. His labor is for all those who are wise of…
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Seligman Ulma
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Hanau, Holy Roman Empire
(Hanau, Germany)
Date:
1610
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People are forever quoting Talleyrand’s remark that language is only there in order to hide the thoughts of the diplomat (or for that matter of any other shrewd and dubious person). But in fact the…
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Victor Klemperer
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Dölzschen, East Germany
(Dölzschen, Germany)
Date:
1947
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There is one people in the world alone who are not sufficiently concerned with “human knowledge” and who have neglected the public instruction of their youth in the laws of etiquette, the sciences and…
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Naphtali Herts Wessely
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1782
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Proverbs are the wisdom of the people, the fruit of common sense, and in particular, are distilled from general experience. They are to the moral…
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Leopold Dukes
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Leipzig, German Confederation
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1844
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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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1897
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If in what follows the nature of language is considered on the basis of the first chapter of Genesis, the object is neither biblical interpretation nor subjection of the Bible to objective…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1916
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We, the entire assembly of the congregation of Israel, believe that the Torah that is in our possession today is exactly the same as was written by Moses our master, peace be on him. From then until…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1783
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I adapted the above psalm to my situation, for the blessed Lord freed me from the Inquisition—although broken, I was released and free—where I saw eleven seeming penitents burned to death for heresy…
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David Abenatar Melo
Places:
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1626