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This will be the first of my addresses before the Zionist Congresses to deal not with the various questions involved in the upbuilding of Palestine but with the significance of…
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Arthur Ruppin
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1929
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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)
Date:
1931
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That is how it is with the Jews. They shed many a tear for the past. That they fared better under liberalism does not guarantee the justice of the latter. Even the French Revolution, which helped the…
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Max Horkheimer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1939
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We live in a prison. We have been degraded to the level of homeless and uncared-for animals. When we…
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Abraham Lewin
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Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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A fire is now sweeping over the whole Old World, threatening to annihilate, heaven forbid, more than two-thirds of the Jewish people. Nobody can guarantee that the fire, heaven…
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Yosef Yitshak Schneersohn
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1941
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The purpose of this article is to warn of the danger of war between Jews and Arabs, and to offer an alternative based upon a reasonable compromise. The uncompromising who believe that this collision…
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Judah L. Magnes
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1943
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I entitled this volume Em Habanim Semeḥah [Psalms 113:9], based on the Jerusalem tractate of Berakhot (toward the close of the second chapter) which portrays Erets Yisrael as the mother of Israel and…
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Issachar Shlomo Teichtal
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1943
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The mass mind is eminently retentive. Man, in Nietzsche’s definition, is the being with the longest memory, and José Ortega y Gasset has recently affirmed (in his Toward a Philosophy of History) the…
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Joshua Trachtenberg
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1943
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We know that a writer has no power except in the pen. Nevertheless there are times when it behooves us to alter the ordinary manner of expression. There are times when the author, too, must depart…
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Asher Barash
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Kefar Shemaryahu, Mandate Palestine (Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel)
Date:
1944
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Excerpt from the Order of the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense:. . . It is recommended that all commanders (from platoon leader to head of staff) change their family names—be they German, Anglo…
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Mordecai Nimtsa-bi
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1948