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Edwin Levick
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1907
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Art is ultimately tantamount to nature if only we understand it somewhat more broadly and look at man as a natural phenomenon. As the saying goes, no matter how you try to drive nature out through the…
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Maximilian Syrkin
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1910
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Schedule of Lectures and Cl[asses] at the Courses of Oriental StudiesDaysTimesSubjectsLecturersSaturday8–?History of the Oral Torah [i.e., early rabbinic literature]Dr. L. S. KatsenelsonSunday8–10 a.m…
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Zalman Shazar
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1911
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Werner Sombart is undoubtedly one of the most striking personalities in the Germany of to-day. Born in 1863, he has devoted himself to research in economics, and has contributed much that is valuable…
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Mortimer Epstein
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London, United Kingdom (London, Great Britain)
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1913
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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…
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Joseph Nehama
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1913
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An Addendum to the History of R. Moses Isserles
Rabbinic literature assigns to customs (minhag) an extensive and highly prominent role. In fact, the talmudic sages always looked upon customs with…
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Shmuel Aba Horodetsky
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1914
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For the critic of the future remains the problem of estimating to what degree residence in America influenced the art of Charles Martin Loeffler and of Leo Ornstein. Patent enough to our own day is…
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Paul L. Rosenfeld
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1916
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“Is the Bene-Israel in India a pure Jew by descent” is the question often asked and discussed. There has been considerable literature on the subject especially by aliens, even such as can claim little…
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Jacob Bapuji Israel
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Bombay, British India (Mumbai, India)
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1918
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The only essential difference between Catholicism and Protestantism is that the second permits free inquiry to a far greater degree than the first. Of course, Catholicism by the very fact that it is…
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Émile Durkheim
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Paris, France
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1897
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To speak with competence about anti-Semitism, some studies would be necessary, which I have not done. I can therefore only give you my impression.
First of all, there would be grounds, I believe, to…
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Émile Durkheim
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Paris, France
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1899