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In the supplement of Sürgöny, a certain…
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Löw Schwab
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Pest, Austrian Empire
(Pest, Hungary)
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1840
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Gathering the sources was a modern way of closing ranks, of reaffirming the essential unity of Jewish experience as one vale of tears through space and time. The harder the times, the more desperately…
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Samuel D. Kassow
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1984
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Every single nation, if it wishes to place its foot on the threshold of the family of nations on the earth, must prepare a constitution for itself stating its integrity, and to bring with it the book…
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Yitsḥak Bernfeld
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Lwow, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1881
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When history recounts the life and fortune of the peoples who lived in various epochs, when it lets us believe in the marvelous strides that they had made, whether in the field of war, or for…
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Klara
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Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire
(Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Date:
1903
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[ . . . ] I wrote yesterday to my friend, the illustrious rabbi, our teacher, Rabbi S. Ahronson, and to Rabbi Meir Hildesheimer himself, may his light shine, in a sharp tone, making it clear that I…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
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Vilna, Republic of Lithuania
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1934
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When Berdichev, that famous commercial city, began, in the last few years, to fall from its high estate and the number of newly impoverished but respectable inhabitants kept increasing, I started to…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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(Volhynia, Ukraine)
Date:
1865
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The Hebrew Zakhor—“Remember”—announces my elusive theme. Memory is always problematic, usually deceptive, sometimes treacherous. Proust knew this, and the English reader is deprived of the full force…
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Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
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Seattle, United States of America
Date:
1982
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[T]he Iewish Nation, though scattered through the whole World, are not therefore a despisable people, but as a Plant worthy to be planted in the whole world, received into Populous Cities: who aught…
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Menasseh Ben Israel, Shalom Italia
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London, Kingdom of England
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1655
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I will speak with my heart while my soul is faint, when the spirit of my understanding wanders through the recesses of my worries. My thoughts surely ask me: What is this? And why is this? What is…
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Unknown
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1882
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[ . . . ] In regard to the boycott [of German goods], in my view, the rabbis ought to have stood aloof, at a distance, and not to have involved themselves with this at all, as this is an issue…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
Places:
Vilna, Republic of Lithuania
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1933