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This work, which I here make public, answers a scholarly need that became evident to me twenty-five years ago, when I was still a young student writing my first book, The Beginning…
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Yitshak (Ignacy) Schiper
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1930
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A Civil War–era Jewish leader defends the institution of slavery in the South based on his reading of the Hebrew Bible.
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Morris Jacob Raphall
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1861
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When Berdichev, that famous commercial city, began, in the last few years, to fall from its high estate and the number of newly impoverished but respectable inhabitants kept increasing, I started to…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Russian Empire (Volhynia, Ukraine)
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1865
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Hatred can never be good. (Spinoza, Ethics)
The spirit of politics has perhaps never before embraced people as tightly as today. There is an increase in social awareness. The class division of society…
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1932
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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…
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Felix Weltsch
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Prague, Czechoslovakia (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1931
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When we speak about the economy of a given nation, about the German, French, or Polish economies, we don’t mean the economic lives of all the people belonging, according to their race, language…
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Bernard D. Weinryb
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1938