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The world is full of armies.
But that is not what will kill us.
Béla Balázs
If there is culture today, it can only be an aesthetic culture. If one wants to raise seriously the question whether there…
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Georg Lukács
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1910
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A. Leopold,
It would appear from your letter that you do not believe that art is a factor in civilization and progress. You are not the only one. One might agree with you that up to now no statue or…
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Sh. Yanovsky
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1906
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Edited by David Frishman and published by Stybel
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Avraham Stybel
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1918
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But Heinrich Heine—even the aesthetes who are rescuing his immortality in an island publishing house (these gloriously impractical minds whose cerebral wrinkles trail away into ornament) have nothing…
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Karl Kraus
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Germany, Germany
Date:
1910
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Ira Jan
It is my task to introduce to the readers of Múlt és Jövő (Past and Future) to an extraordinary Jewish woman, and it is hard to tell whether she is a greater writer or artist. Those who say…
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Imre (Dunajecz Jakab) Abadi
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1914
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This postcard was printed by the Bund to commemorate the death of a worker, Kagan (Kohen), who was arrested in Mozir (today, Mazyr, Belarus) in the midst of one of the numerous protests against the…
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Photographer Unknown
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1905
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We live in a time of Sturm und Drang [storm and stress]. Every day brings new disappointments and new hopes. Old forms lose their value, no new ones are being created. And the synthetic gaze of…
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David Bergelson
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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In recent years, a time when the branches of science planted in the vineyard of the Enlightenment stretch out to our brethren in our land [i.e., the Russian Empire], and many eat their fruit, and many…
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Mordechai Tsvi Mane
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1881
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The strongest testimony to life is productivity, and the most direct form of productivity is art. That is why those of us who announce a life of the Jewish people inquire into the possibility of…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1901
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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
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1932