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Everything, nearly everything, was taken away from us in the ghettos and concentration camps by the great criminals. They did not spare our treasures, both material and spiritual. Even our…
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Israel Kaplan
Places:
Munich, West Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1949
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Without the appropriate distance, writing history is particularly difficult and thorny in this case. And there is an additional element of complexity. Forced into the thankless role of the prosecutor…
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Josef Wulf, Léon Poliakov
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Berlin, West Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1955
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With the same character, with which the individual human being is born, with the same he descends into the grave. The kindly disposed does not become ill-disposed, the judicious does not become…
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Daniel Khvolson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1871
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It cannot be doubted that the two designations ahl al-ḥadīth and ahl al-ra’y originally referred to branches of legists occupied with the investigation of Islamic law: the former were…
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David Tevele
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Buda, Pest, Óbuda, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Leipzig, Holy Roman Emprie
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1883
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I recognize no eternal verities save those which not only can be comprehended by the human intellect but can also be demonstrated and confirmed by man’s faculties. It is, however, a misconception of…
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Moses Mendelssohn
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1783
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What we have to do at present for the regeneration of the Jewish nation is, first, to keep alive the hope of the political rebirth of our people, and next, to reawaken that hope where it slumbers…
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Moses Hess
Places:
Leipzig, German Confederation
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1862
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I often said to a younger girl friend: “If you are marrying without love, after all, do not talk to your husband. Please him as much as your nature can tolerate; do not argue with…
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Rahel Levin Varnhagen
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1799–1800
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But was it surprising, when in the midst of such social circumstances or actually disarray, an intellectual sociability was offered, despite the prejudices that prevailed against the Jews at that time…
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Henriette de Lemos Herz
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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Free of any preoccupations, I allowed myself to seek out and investigate the Jews, their manners and customs. They are good-hearted folk, charitable and hospitable to strangers. They honor the Torah…
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Samuel Romanelli
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1792
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Permit me to preface the necessary information about the contents and the meaning of the book which is herewith presented to my readers with a few remarks about Jewish…
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Leopold Zunz
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1832