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Jewish mysticism in its various forms represents an attempt to interpret the religious values of Judaism in terms of mystical values. It concentrates upon the idea of the living God who manifests…
(Written at the end of 1939 in Havana—with thoughts about Poland)
Our poor nest eternally atremble
in the wind.
What will happen now, in bloody storm,
mayn kind?
Now, in bloody storm . . . ?
The…
German Jewry proved itself to be one of the most deeply characteristic and in every important respect fundamental representatives of the West, proving its mettle as partner in its two-thousand-year…
The machine-woven rugs produced by the Torah u-mel’aḥah trade school in Jerusalem for export to France were typically red and rectangular (similar to Turkish prayer carpets), and they featured the…
Ephraim Lilien’s photograph of Theodor Herzl, considered the father of modern political Zionism, depicts him staring off into the distance like a lonely prophet. The congress in Basel in 1901 was the…
Moses, from whose loins I sprung,
Lit by a lamp in his blood
Ten immutable rules, a moon
For mutable lampless men.
The blonde, the bronze, the ruddy,
With the same heaving blood,
Keep tide to the…
When the [Yiddish language] culture conference gathered in Czernowitz [in September, 1908], I was against it. When the culture conference gathered in Berlin, I voiced my doubts about it. Now that a…
One hundred and odd years ago, the walls that imprisoned us Jews in a mental ghetto fell, torn down by Christian advocates of human rights who are assured of our eternal gratitude. After having been…
Society of “Hebrew Language Lovers” [Ḥoveve sefat ‘ever]Moscow BranchMaruseyka, 10 Kosmodimian AlleyTelephone: 180-53Moscow, 24 Adar 5677 [March 18, 1917]To Mr. Ḥ.N. Bialik in Odessa,Honored Friend!Th…