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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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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)
Date:
1906
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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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The Lion’s Chancellor, the Wolf, was taken to court by all the animals, who complained that no living being was safe from his predatory jaws. “This insatiable creature…
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David Friedländer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1779
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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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[Question:] A certain gentleman, a close and trusted friend, a Torah scholar who had read scripture, learned Mishnah, and ministered to many learned talmudic scholars, invited me to come to the holy…
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Jacobus Houbraken, Yair Ḥayim Bacharach
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
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1699
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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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The purpose of the Jewish University is to offer Jewish youth the opportunity to obtain an education:
- A. In the general higher disciplines with special consideration given to the Wissenschaft des…
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Martin Buber, Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann
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1902
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It is a not a simple cookbook that I am presenting herewith to my sisters in faith, although most room is given to the “kitchen.” This book of Cooking and Home Economics [Koch- und…
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Flora Wolff
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1888
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Berlin-Grunewald
Tauberstr. 16
February 26, 1970
Dear Mr. Scholem,
Writing this letter does not come easily to me; hence the long delay. And now you know already that I have not been able to decide in…
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Peter Szondi
Places:
Berlin, West Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1970