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A healthy mind lives in a healthy body!This old Latin adage never received proper attention among us Jews, although we do not doubt its truth. Accepted in theory, its thought did not…
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Hermann Jalowicz
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1900
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The renaissance of the Maccabean festival, which began with the onset of modern nationalism, signified a great revolution in Jewish thinking. The Jew aspired to leave behind the unworthy life of exile…
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Robert Weltsch
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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October 10, 1912 Berlin-Grunewald Delbrückstr. 23 Dear Mr. Strauß!That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1912
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The Dreyfus trial transformed me into a Zionist. Not the current one in Rennes, but the original one in Paris that I witnessed in 1894. I was living in Paris then as a journalist and attended the…
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Theodor Herzl
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1899
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[ . . . ] Got together with Werner this afternoon; he wants me to become active in the [Social Democratic] party. Had a discussion about historical materialism that was quite interesting to me. [ . .…
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Gershom Scholem
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1915
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In these days when Jews are being killed in Palestine, I chose to go to Grenadierstrasse—not to Jerusalem. I had the feeling it was better to be with the bereaved than the dead. I paid a condolence…
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Joseph Roth
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1929
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We are tired of being hungry! There is hardly a Hebrew word [to be found]. There is neither vision nor examination, no memory of the ancients, no expressions for the present generation…
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Naḥum Sokolow
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Cologne, German Empire (Cologne, Germany)
Date:
1907
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Regarding the first point of the program, I was just given the honorific task to add a few words to its discussion. Although I find it very difficult at present to justify my assessment of this matter…
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Leo Motzkin
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1897
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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
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1897