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Moshe:How? There’s no inner sanctum in my life, my life is secular, absolutely secular, from beginning to end. And what’s not in my psyche, I’ll not let you erect between us. Neither you nor anyone…
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Yehoshua Sobol
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London, United Kingdom
(Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1976
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Looking back, we readily recognize how many illusions were inherent in Jewish ideologies.
The Assimilationists idealized emancipation. Some of them became German…
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Robert Weltsch
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1956
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The opportunity for which we have been struggling has come. We have the opportunity of developing a Homeland, but nothing more than an opportunity. It is urgent that we enter upon the work, urgent…
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Louis D. Brandeis
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1920
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For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
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George Steiner
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1966
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When we were the persecuted
I was one of you
How can I remain one
when you become the persecutors?
Your longing was
to become like other nations
who murdered you
Now you have become like them
You…
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Erich Fried
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1974
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At the same time, let it be pointed out that this call for a new Hibbat Zion is directed towards the idea rather than the movement, since the historical Hibbat Zion was a movement which failed and an…
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Yosef Gorny
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London, United Kingdom
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1994
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This appraisal of the west has remained Toynbee’s considered judgment. “In my eyes,” he states in the last volume of A Study of History, published in 1961, “the west is a…
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Elie Kedourie
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1970
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Whatever happened to me on that day seemed to urge me to muster up all my courage and hope. When the ship approached the harbor of Jaffa, many people were there to meet us…
Contributor:
Berl Katznelson
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1941