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Today in Germany it seems Jewish assimilation must declare its bankruptcy. The general social antisemitism and its official legitimation affects in the first instance assimilated Jews, who can no…
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Hannah Arendt
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1933
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Is there a Jewish people? Thousands of Jews, whose language at school and in daily discourse is Hebrew, are again living in Palestine. Neo-Hebrew literature has essayists like Ahad Ha-Am, poets like B…
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Ludwig Strauss
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Berlin, German Empire (Germany)
Munich, German Empire (Germany)
Date:
1912
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We want to scrape off the eggshells of the ghetto and live as children of the present in the midst of German intellectual life, but without breaking with our past and shaking off the legitimate…
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Eugen Fuchs
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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When an intimidated individual or a careerist among my brethren feels inclined or forced to identify himself as a son of his forefathers, then he usually describes himself—provided he was not baptized…
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Albert Einstein
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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The way in which the Jewish world will merge into the European follows from the above-mentioned principle. To merge does not mean to perish [aufgehen ist nicht untergehen]. Only the obstinate, self…
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Eduard Gans
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1822
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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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We recently received from Vienna the new newspaper of the “Zionists,” Die Welt. It appeared on the eve of the holiday of the Feast of Weeks, which reminds us more than any other holiday that it was…
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Protestrabiner
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1897
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We received the following appeal addressed to the German citizens of Jewish faith with the request to publish it:
For the past two decades, a movement has disquieted our fatherland whose ultimate…
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Central Union of the German Citizens of the Jewish Faith
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1893