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Editor’s Note in Sha‘are mizraḥ (Gates of the East)
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We gratefully acknowledge the signs of munificence shown to us by His Majesty’s government which has officially licensed our periodical, Sha‘are mizraḥ. We understand that this benevolence of His…

Contributor:

Rafael Uziel

Places:

Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)

Date:

1846

Subjects:

Writing, Assimilation, Jewish languages, Scholarship

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Journalism
Build Up, Build Up the Path
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Every single nation, if it wishes to place its foot on the threshold of the family of nations on the earth, must prepare a constitution for itself stating its integrity, and to bring with it the book…

Contributor:

Yitsḥak Bernfeld

Places:

Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)

Date:

1881

Subjects:

Assimilation, Jewish identity, Writing, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Political Culture
The Blessing of Assimilation in Jewish History
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I trust that none of my remarks will be understood to say that assimilation is not now, or has not always been, a great threat to the Jewish group. In a sense, the problem of assimilation is as old as…

Contributor:

Gerson D. Cohen

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Date:

1966

Subjects:

Assimilation, Minority, Jewish identity, Interfaith relations, Writing

Categories:

Political Culture, Theology