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2. What was it that made for the peculiar position of the Jews in the Middle Ages and later, until emancipation came along? It was the ghetto, we are told and told again, which was at the root of…
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Max Weinreich
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New York, United States of America
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1967
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Besides these, there are students of outstanding ability in their Torah study seated constantly in his presence—they are swifter than eagles and mightier than lions, each…
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Ezekiel Paneth
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Linsk/Lisko, Austrian Empire (Lisko, Ukraine)
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1805
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Thus said Abraham the son of Samuel the son of Abraham Zacuto, may his memory be for the world to come. [ . . . ] [T]o bring merit upon myself and others, I was motivated to write this…
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Abraham Zacuto
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ca. 1505
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In the days when…
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Jacob Cansino
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Madrid, Spanish Empire (Madrid, Spain)
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1638
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In all times of transition such as the one we are now undergoing, on every occasion when human society passes from one era to another era, from one way of doing things to another way of doing them…
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Joseph Salvador
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Paris, French Empire (Paris, France)
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1860
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According to the workings of the natural order there are three periods through which each primordial nation passes from the time it comes into being until it passes from the scene and perishes:
- The…
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Nachman Krochmal
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Tarnopol, Austrian Empire (Ternopil, Ukraine)
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1800-1840
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The debate in 1978 was not cathartic. It was just the opposite. Here we have something of a textbook example of the reciprocity between the present and collective memory…
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Anita Shapira
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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2000
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“Eretz Israel.” There is not one. We already grew up on one sublime Eretz Israel which is almost the be-all-and-end-all of everything. The place of the Jewish people. Its homeland, its right, its…
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Adam Baruch
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Jerusalem, Israel
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2001
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I will describe only a little of the suffering undergone by the exiles, some of whom entered the kingdom of Fez by the grace of the great king, one of the righteous men of the nations of the world…
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Abraham Ardutiel
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Fez, Morocco (Fes, Morocco)
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1510
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On the 4th of Sivan 5315 [June 3, 1555], after the death of Pope Marcellus [of] La Marche, whose name will be well remembered, though he reigned only twenty-three days, he gave great redemption to…
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Benjamin Nehemiah ben Elnatan
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Civitanova, Papal States (Civitanova Marche, Italy)
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1559–1562