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The History of Jewish Education and Culture in France and Germany from the Expulsion of French Jewry to the Enlightenment
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The behavior of the Jews in most places generally follows the behavior of the [local] Christians—(Sefer ḥasidim [Book of the Pious, 13th century] § 1106) The present volume is a continuation…

Contributor:

Moritz Güdemann

Places:

Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1880

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Education, Scholarship, Nationalism, Antisemitism

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, History
At Dusk, Let There Be Light
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Fourteen years ago I wrote, as now, an article in Ha-Shaḥar [The Dawn] that I called by this same title. At that time, too, I called out in heartfelt joy: “At dusk, let there be light!” For then, too…

Contributor:

Peretz Smolenskin

Places:

Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1883

Subjects:

Enlightenment, Sectarianism, Nationalism, Piety

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism
The Hunt in Bohemia
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The great controversy in Bohemia surrounding the language legislation shows Austrian Jews in a strange position. They go along loyally with those who only yesterday had been their fiercest enemies—and…

Contributor:

Theodor Herzl

Places:

Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Nationalism, Human rights, Assimilation

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts