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[ . . . ] The Judaism into which Heine was born and with which he had to come to terms as a maturing man was the Judaism of the German reform. This was, to be sure, no longer the reform, creative in…
To define the characteristics of antisemitism it is good to proceed on two fronts: i.e., to examine its development externally in a purely empirical manner and thereby find its…
That is how it is with the Jews. They shed many a tear for the past. That they fared better under liberalism does not guarantee the justice of the latter. Even the French Revolution, which helped the…
You ask me for my opinion on the question which at present agitates so greatly the minds of men, emancipation; whether I consider it feasible and desirable, according to the spirit of Judaism, our…
Jewish statistics began 3,000 years ago. But for the first time since the dispersion of the Jewish people an organization has been formed in their midst that has set itself the goal to produce a…
If wandering, considered as the liberation from every given point in space, is the conceptual opposite to being fixed to a given point, then the sociological form of “the stranger” presents the union…
The Jews in Poland still have a very demanding and holy task ahead of themselves. Or, to be more exact, they have a holy, lofty, most important and most responsible mission. Hasidism was born in…
The primary task of our discussion today on the question of ethical behavior is that we gain clarity about the field as a whole, that we review and discuss our particular stance on this matter, and…
All philosophy—understood in the widest sense as awe before and research into the inexplicable secrets and the inner coherence of the world—is meaningful not for the sake of knowledge but as a form of…
Following the example of Plato, I have Socrates in his last hours relate the arguments for the immortality of the human soul to his students. The dialogue of the Greek author, which has the name Phaed…