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Successive, often polemic interpretations, citations in a context of sacred doctrine or of political-historical opportunity, construe, around the archaic, cardinal words in the Hebrew canon, a…
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George Steiner
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Geneva, Switzerland
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1985
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There is very little real anti-Semitism in the South. There is even a solid tradition of philo-Semitism, the explanation of which lies in the very character of Southern Protestantism itself—in the…
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Harry L. Golden
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1955
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South African Jews are forever conscious of injustice, but of the injustice that they alone are made to suffer. They quickly grow furious over the treatment of Israel, the power politics…
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Ronald Segal, Dan Jacobson
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New York City, United States of America
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1957
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What is a Jew? Who is a Jew? After this catastrophe, what is a Jew’s relation to the Jewish past? We resume our original question as we turn from one rupture in post-Holocaust Jewish existence—of the…
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Emil L. Fackenheim
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Toronto, Canada
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1982
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The situation of the Jewish woman might well be compared to the situation of the Jew in non-Jewish culture. The Gentile projection of the Jew as Other—the stranger, the demon, the human not-quite…
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Judith Plaskow
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New York, United States of America
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1983
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For a half-millennium the Jew, rejected by the world, had secluded himself within ghetto walls, unconcerned with what lay without. But the day came when the world…
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Milton Steinberg
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New York City, United States of America
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1934
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Looking back, we readily recognize how many illusions were inherent in Jewish ideologies.
The Assimilationists idealized emancipation. Some of them became German…
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Robert Weltsch
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London, United Kingdom
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1956
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7 September 1787SiresWith leave and submission I address myself to those in whom there is wisdom and understanding and knowledge, they are the honourable personages appointed and Made overseers of a…
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Jonas Phillips
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1787