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The Birth of the Ba‘al Shem Tov
One of the greatest phenomena, running like a thread throughout the spiritual history of the Jewish people, is mysticism, a remnant of ancient mythology, which could…
We are speaking of the Jewish Renaissance. By this we understand the peculiar and basically inexplicable phenomenon of the progressive rejuvenation of the Jewish people in language, customs, and art…
Religion loses its sway over our brothers here each day. By the force of circumstances it is true, almost all of our coreligionists have already replaced Saturday with Sunday. This last day is…
The idea of publishing a complete History of the Jews in Russia scarcely calls for extensive explanations or justifications. Russian Jewry, which quantitatively represents the most significant…
With good reason the Jewish people have earned the highest title to which a nation can aspire, the honor of being called The People of the Book [Am ha-seyfer]. “Der Seyfer,” the book, has…
Is this the Jew of the East? Is he an old man, who, almost entirely removed from the present day and certainly removed from the future, lives a life that is limited to the most oppressed and narrowest…
In 1905 a group of Jewish Social Democrats left the party in Galicia in order to found their own organization of Jewish Social Democratic workers. The executive of the international Social Democratic…
The world is full of armies.
But that is not what will kill us.
Béla Balázs
If there is culture today, it can only be an aesthetic culture. If one wants to raise seriously the question whether there…
Religious forces are in fact only transfigured collective forces, that is, moral forces; they are made of ideas and feelings that the…
Before I come to the main subject of my pamphlet, I would like briefly to consider why the Jewish socialists deserted the Jewish masses and what is the current state of mind of a substantial segment…