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That the image of these United States as a “meltingpot” might be a delusion and its imputed harmony with democracy a snare was not an idea which, prior to the Great War, seemed even possible to…
This minute-book belongs to the members of the Psalms-Society formed here, at Aleksat, of the honorable Jews serving in the army of His Imperial Majesty Alexander, may His glory be exalted, at the…
The belated adoption of the first law of Jewish emancipation has led to the assumption that it had no practical value. True as this statement may be technically, it nevertheless needs further…
Nearly fifteen years ago, following frequent persecutions against our coreligionists in Russia and Romania, a few European Jews conceived of the project of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine and…
[ . . . ] God chose the Jews: they are a chosen people, though not a people (as I hold and as I shall subsequently maintain) in the sense that the English or the…
The religious ideal that forms the basis of Judaism and that should remain ever present in our Jewish hearts creates no conflict with the requirements of citizenship.
It is true that in the past we…
We want to scrape off the eggshells of the ghetto and live as children of the present in the midst of German intellectual life, but without breaking with our past and shaking off the legitimate…
It is clear that if there were no other proposal for saving tens of thousands of our brothers from their hard and bitter sufferings, if there were no other way in which our people could be reborn and…
The great controversy in Bohemia surrounding the language legislation shows Austrian Jews in a strange position. They go along loyally with those who only yesterday had been their fiercest enemies—and…
We recently received from Vienna the new newspaper of the “Zionists,” Die Welt. It appeared on the eve of the holiday of the Feast of Weeks, which reminds us more than any other holiday that it was…