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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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1922
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[ . . . ] The Judaism into which Heine was born and with which he had to come to terms as a maturing man was the Judaism of the German reform. This was, to be sure, no longer the reform, creative in…
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Leo Löwenthal
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Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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Late 1920s
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I recognize no eternal verities save those which not only can be comprehended by the human intellect but can also be demonstrated and confirmed by man’s faculties. It is, however, a misconception of…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1783
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Following the example of Plato, I have Socrates in his last hours relate the arguments for the immortality of the human soul to his students. The dialogue of the Greek author, which has the name Phaed…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1767
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The telos (takhlit) of man’s activities, in the aspect (behinah) of having will and choice, is the ultimate human good (ha’hatslahah ha’enoshi’it). This excellence necessarily comes after the…
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Solomon Maimon
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1792
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One hundred and odd years ago, the walls that imprisoned us Jews in a mental ghetto fell, torn down by Christian advocates of human rights who are assured of our eternal gratitude. After having been…
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Moritz Goldstein
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1785
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You hold me now completely in your hands
My heart beats like a frightened little bird’s
Against your palm. Take heed! You do not think
A person lives within the page you thumb.
To you this book is…
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Gertrud Kolmar
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
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1932
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The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews.
Why do we call ourselves Jews? Because we are Jews? What does that mean: we are Jews? I…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1911
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The Jewish people did not begin to philosophize because of an irresistible urge to do so. They received philosophy from outside sources, and the history of Jewish philosophy is a history of the…
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Julius Guttmann
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1933