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To Professor Cesare Lombroso in Turin. Most esteemed and dear teacher!
I dedicate this book to you, in order to express aloud that I would not have been able to write this…
Why does the name of Orpheus, “the first of the world’s singers,” as Lefranc de Pompignan called him, appear on the title-page of this volume? Because he was not merely “the first singer,”…
Since the theme of the Noachide commandments has arisen for consideration, I shall mention here what I presented before the assembly of rabbis in the great city [Paris] in the year 5567 [1807], and it…
Born to converso parents and baptized as Manoel Dias Soeiro, Menasseh Ben Israel moved as a boy with his family to Amsterdam, where they reverted openly to Judaism. In 1626, he established the first…
To Mr. Sh. Dubnow, St. Petersburg
Moscow, Jan. 8, 1907
I received your letter, and thank you for everything you told me about. . . .
I have already heard about the classes you are giving on Genesis…
The French Revolution wherever it penetrates, and in France above all, opens to Judaism a new era, in a double sense, material and moral.
On one hand, by breaking down the barrier between the Jew and…