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If wandering, considered as the liberation from every given point in space, is the conceptual opposite to being fixed to a given point, then the sociological form of “the stranger” presents the union…
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Georg Simmel
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1906
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The task of this book was determined by its being part of the Grundriß [der Gesamtwissenschaft des Judentums; Fundamental Study toward the Comprehensive Knowledge of Judaism] series. Based on…
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Ismar Elbogen
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913
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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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We are speaking of the Jewish Renaissance. By this we understand the peculiar and basically inexplicable phenomenon of the progressive rejuvenation of the Jewish people in language, customs, and art…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1905
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In the previous article, I presented you, dear reader, with the essence of the three different approaches existing within our religion, to which I have respectively…
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Fabius Mieses
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Leipzig, German Confederation (Leipzig, Germany)
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1868
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The occurrence of self-criticism as a determinant may explain how it is that a number of the most apt jokes . . . have grown up on the soil of Jewish popular life. They are stories created by Jews and…
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Sigmund Freud
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1905
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Jewish thought, having always been in a vital relation to Christian scholarship—sometimes, as in scholasticism, the influencing part, sometimes, as in the 19th century, the influenced part—has…
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Franz Rosenzweig
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1914
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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)
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1916
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There are a few Torah scholars who are rich in knowledge and whose mental grasp is abundant, while others do not possess an intellectual grasp akin to theirs, for everyone possesses mental grasp in…
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Yeḥiel Mikhel Epstein
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)
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1683–1693
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David Ganz
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18th Century