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“Consummatum est!” I could exclaim on January 1, 1876.The minister [Jozsef Eötvös] frivolously deceived me. His promise turned out to be a premeditated lie. Scorn and sarcasm were his response when I…
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Ignác Goldziher
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
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1890
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Laboring women, suffering women
Women who languish in factory and home—
Why stand at a distance, why build not our temple
Of humanity’s joy, and of freedom sublime?
Help us to bear the red banner…
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Dovid Edelstadt
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1891
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The fate of this idea of settling the Holy Land with Jews is like that of the fairy prince transformed by evil magic until rescued. The contemporary fairy godmothers of our people deserve our…
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Yeḥiel Mikhl Pines
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1892
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As I informed you in yesterday’s cable, hearings on the cause célèbre that is stirring up all of Palestine have begun before the Grand Sanhedrin in Jerusalem.
The issue is really quite…
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Jacques Bahar
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1897
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The religious ideal that forms the basis of Judaism and that should remain ever present in our Jewish hearts creates no conflict with the requirements of citizenship.
It is true that in the past we…
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Alexander Benghiat
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İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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1897
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The Dreyfus trial transformed me into a Zionist. Not the current one in Rennes, but the original one in Paris that I witnessed in 1894. I was living in Paris then as a journalist and attended the…
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Theodor Herzl
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1899
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When history recounts the life and fortune of the peoples who lived in various epochs, when it lets us believe in the marvelous strides that they had made, whether in the field of war, or for…
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Klara
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Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Date:
1903
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In the early period of Jewish history there was a considerable party which took a materialistic view of the national life, in the sense that it had no ideal beyond that of making the State supreme at…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1904
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As socialists, we strive to overthrow the existing order, which is based on economic and political slavery, and to create on its ruins that collectivized state which alone can guarantee the full and…
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1904
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The Jewish question may be resolved through a new philosophical synthesis and a true reform of moral and religious life for Jews and Christians alike. Just as we must admit that we need reforms across…
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Viktor Vohryzek
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Pardubice, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Pardubice, Czech Republic)
Date:
1904