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One of the causes of the failings in the lives of the young workers [in Palestine] is certainly the lack of family life. Here, too, there is room for observation. Here we have a phenomenon that is not…
At the beginning of the Jewish labor movement in the Pale of Settlement in Russia, Jewish youth began to return from Russian to Yiddish. This started with a free choice, as later on we chose Hebrew…
Love is a net that nature spreads out in order to multiply humankind. (Love also exists among animals.) Only complete love is true love. True love does not have any higher or lower…
Since time immemorial Jews in every city would customarily kasher the dishes they use throughout the year for Passover—glassware by soaking, and pots by heating them to a very high temperature. But a…
“There is no Jewish music!” Thus concluded not only our assimilationists but also most of our nationalists.
We will not argue with the former at all, since, according to them, because there is no…
We all recognize the tragic aspects of the Diaspora and we cannot hope to achieve in the Diaspora as full and complete national-cultural development as is possible for a nation living in its own…
I have often been asked, and still am asked, whether I know from my frequent conversations with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy about his attitudes toward the Jews. I am asked whether I spoke with him on…
What is the sought-after culture? What are all the great ideals, all of man’s lofty ideals? What does man seek in life?
If only man knew what he should seek in life! All great ideals were only created…
Assimilation, taken literally, means making things similar to each other, and in this concrete instance refers to a desire for the assimilation of Jews in terms of language, culture, and customs to…
All philosophy—understood in the widest sense as awe before and research into the inexplicable secrets and the inner coherence of the world—is meaningful not for the sake of knowledge but as a form of…