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Social Activities and Ethnic Group Maintenance
One other concept in addition to the compromise with secularism is required before the problem under study will become entirely clear. This is the status…
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Marshall Sklare
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New York, United States of America
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1955
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A good many years ago, in 1929, I chanced to read a book which disturbed me in a way I can still remember. The book was called Red Cavalry; it was a collection of stories about Soviet regiments of…
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Lionel Trilling
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New York, United States of America
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1955
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In the treatise Zeit ist’s [Franz] Rosenzweig outlined a detailed and imposing plan of an Academy for the Science of Judaism, the members of which would be both scholars and teachers. As scholars…
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Nahum N. Glatzer
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1956
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We join together in this covenant out of a sense of divine mission, out of a search for the realization of the sacred in our lives as individuals and as brothers and sisters in a community. Though…
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Arthur Green
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Somerville, United States of America
Date:
1968
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It has not always been easy to break with the more than two-thousand-year-old manner of translating the Hebrew Bible, the word-for-word manner. Thus in Gen. 14.1–2 (cf. vv…
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Harry Orlinsky
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New York, United States of America
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1969
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[ . . . ] It seems to me we are ready to rethink ourselves in America now; to preserve ourselves by a new culture-making.
Now you will say that this is a vast and stupid contradiction following all I…
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Cynthia Ozick
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1970
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Like other “holy men,” the rabbi played political, religious, and cultural roles. Just as the Zoroastrian Magus was involved in the administration of the local community, in the maintenance of cultic…
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Jacob Neusner
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1971
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“What you spend in honor of the holy days, the Lord will richly reward!” says the Talmud, and pious Pinchas granted everything his wife demanded. Clothes for the children and ornaments for herself…
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Leopold Weisel
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Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1847
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The Israelites spent the rest of the day celebrating this festival of thanksgiving in their homes as a second Purim, with tears of sadness and joy, and by the time the sun set, the…
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Salomon Formstecher
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Offenbach, Kingdom of Westphalia (Offenbach, Germany)
Date:
1859
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Anyone familiar with our Russian Poland knows what Jews mean by a small shtetl, a little town.
A small shtetl has a few small cabins, and a fair every other Sunday. The Jews deal in liquor, grain…
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Israel Aksenfeld
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1861