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You should know and believe me, and understand, that I did not become zealous against the scoffers for my own glory, or for the glory of my father’s house, but that it was zeal for the Almighty that…
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Jacob Emden
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1762
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When I was still young, nineteen years of age, it entered my mind to fool the world (as was the practice of the “holy ones” in those days), and this was the scheme I adopted: I used to travel on…
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Isaac Ber Levinzon
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Kremenets, Russian Empire (Kremenets, Ukraine)
Date:
1833
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As I write these words it occurs to me that, since it is the woman who runs the household, she must have wide knowledge and be a good manager. For many centuries our nation ignored women’s education…
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Rosa Gabbay
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1871
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Upon you, great ones, the rebbes of the Hasidim, who follow the path of the Ba‘al Shem Tov, and of whose glorious name they boast and by…
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Eliezer Zweifel
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Žitómir, Russian Empire (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1873
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Now when I was a young lad, sitting amidst the dust of the feet of those bound up with the houses of study, I would never hear them speaking anything sensible about the Hasidim, explaining and…
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1879
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Proverbs are the wisdom of the people, the fruit of common sense, and in particular, are distilled from general experience. They are to the moral…
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Leopold Dukes
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Leipzig, German Confederation (Leipzig, Germany)
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1844
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It is remarkable to observe how prejudice changes its form in every century in order to oppress us and to pose difficulties for our admission to civil society. In former, superstitious times, it was…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1782
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The means of making the Jews happy and useful? Here it is: stop making them unhappy and unuseful. Accord them, or rather return to them the right of citizens, which you have denied them, against all…
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Zalkind Hourwitz
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Paris, France
Date:
1789
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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…
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Judah Scheindling of Shkudy
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Shkudy, Russian Empire (Skuodas, Lithuania)
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1864–1867
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Hamburg, July 7. (Personal communication) In Smyrna, a newspaper will now be published in the Jewish-Spanish language commonly spoken there, entitled La Buena Esperansa. We have the prospectus dated…
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Die Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1842