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The Dance before the Ark
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The fire of joy in solitude. . . And since in vain I have made this journey,The ground giving way to my burning steps,Let me embrace this ardorIn abstract revelry* * *

Contributor:

Henri Franck

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Philosophy, Bible, Allegory, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
Letter to the Alliance Israélite Universelle
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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…

Contributor:

Joseph Nehama

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Philosophy, Community, Jewish identity, Writing, Scholarship

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling, Letters
Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint
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This is a story that begins with J. It was the fifteenth of July 1930. It’s about J; it’s about a consonant still a little vowelish, a little i-ish in the aftermath of a magic philology. Were I not…

Contributor:

Hélène Cixous

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

2001

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Philosophy, Language and linguistics, Circumcision, Family

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy, Language & Linguistics