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This is the statement of the author, Mordechai Ha-kohen, son of My Lord, My Father Rabbi Yehudah, son of Marco (Mordechai), son of Abraham Israel Hakohen, born in Tripoli, Africa, on the twenty-fifth…
In a phrase of Hermann Cohen, Maimonides is the “classic of rationalism” in Judaism. This phrase appears to us to be correct in a stricter sense than Cohen may have intended: Maimonides’…
The Jews are probably the only people in the world to whom it has ever been proposed that their historic destiny is—to be nice. This singular concept has played such an important role in…
Yehudis:
Yidele—a question. Hear me out.
And please don’t interrupt and start to shout.
Yidele:
I’m not exactly in the mood, my dear,
But go ahead and…
In the previous article, I presented you, dear reader, with the essence of the three different approaches existing within our religion, to which I have respectively…
Dear reader, take out a sheet of paper and a pen and follow my calculations. This measure will not be pointless, as the numbers we will be dealing with are rather enormous, and mistakes can be easily…
This is the title page of Disputatio medica inauguralis, de pleuritide (Inaugural Medical Discourse: On Pleuritide), David Pina’s doctoral dissertation at the University of Leiden. Pina was a…
The occurrence of self-criticism as a determinant may explain how it is that a number of the most apt jokes . . . have grown up on the soil of Jewish popular life. They are stories created by Jews and…
Jewish thought, having always been in a vital relation to Christian scholarship—sometimes, as in scholasticism, the influencing part, sometimes, as in the 19th century, the influenced part—has…