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Honored colleagues!
One sole consideration persuades me to accept the very high office to which your vote has appointed me, when dwindling forces barely enable the modest duties of teachers and of…
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Ernesto Nathan
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1906
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The primary task of our discussion today on the question of ethical behavior is that we gain clarity about the field as a whole, that we review and discuss our particular stance on this matter, and…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date:
1906
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Without noise and commotion, without blowing the shofar like many newspapers do when they are founded, without sundry promises, we present to you, dear readers, the first issue of the newborn Ha-Ḥerut…
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Avraham Elmaleh
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1909
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The situation in Argentina is crying for change. If we don’t want the Jewish colonists to vanish into anonymous misery and oppression; if we don’t want the colonies…
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Leon Chasanowitch
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Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911
Dear Mrs. N.,
I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1911
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What the Zionist Organization has to aim at is to lay down in Palestine as soon as possible a populous and thriving agrarian foundation, in order to build up…
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Franz Oppenheimer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1914
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Clara Asscher-Pinkhof, Leo Pinkhof
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1918
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Rabbi Eliezer said: Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her indecency [m. Sotah 3:4]
The rabbis wrote that this refers only to the Oral Torah; but the Written Torah—even though one should not…
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Chofetz Chaim
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1918
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Now in that same shtetl there lived a youth named Shimen, but he was nicknamed Simkhe (joy, celebration) and Plakhte (coarse cloth) because he was barefoot and almost naked and that was all he wore…
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Yankev Morgenshtern
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Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)
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1870s or 1880s
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The sultan thought for a moment and said, “I know, Jew, that your heart is not devoid of intelligence. After all, you want to live a long life in your household with your children. So, do not…
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Avraham S. Friedberg
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1893