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Letter to Alfred Michaux
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Dear Sir, You ask me to write extensively about my life. As far as I can, I will gladly do so, but, unfortunately, I won’t be able to do all that much. Here are the reasons: maybe for future…

Contributor:

Ludwik Zamenhof

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Interfaith relations, Zionism, Jewish languages, (Auto)biography, Letters

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Letters, (Auto)biography
Letter to Ludwig Strauss on Zionism
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 October 10, 1912Berlin-GrunewaldDelbrückstr. 23 Dear Mr. Strauß!That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…

Contributor:

Walter Benjamin

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Zionism, Jewish identity, Philosophy, Modernity, Letters

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter to the Alliance Israélite Universelle
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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…

Contributor:

Joseph Nehama

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Philosophy, Community, Jewish identity, Writing, Scholarship, Letters, Education

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling, Letters