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Letter to Gershom Scholem
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Berlin-Grunewald Tauberstr. 16 February 26, 1970 Dear Mr. Scholem, Writing this letter does not come easily to me; hence the long delay. And now you know already that I have not been able to decide in…

Contributor:

Peter Szondi

Places:

Berlin, West Germany (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1970

Subjects:

Scholarship, Aliyah, Holocaust, Antisemitism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling
Letter to the Friends of Lessing (On the Spinoza Conversations between Lessing and Jacobi)
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Our friend’s devotion to Spinozism is not to be seen as a mere hypothesis (as the Patriarch in Nathan puts it), postulated simply in order to discuss its pros and cons. Herr Jacobi, a man of…

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Moses Mendelssohn

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1786

Subjects:

Philosophy, Polemics, Scholarship, Theology, Enlightenment

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Metaphysics, Science & philosophy
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Letters to Conrad Habicht
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Bern, Thursday [18 or 25 May 1905]Dear Habicht,Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential…

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Albert Einstein

Places:

Bern, Switzerland

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Math, Scholarship, Education

Categories:

Letters, Science & philosophy