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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…
Contributor:
Gershom Scholem
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1941
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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…
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Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
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Zurich, Switzerland
Date:
1957
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February 9, 2000Dear Ammi,It was a pleasure meeting you in person last week. […]I wonder what the staff and the other patrons thought about the two of us sitting there, me with my beard, peyot, and…
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Ammiel Hirsch, Yaakov Yosef Reinman
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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What is a Jew? Who is a Jew? After this catastrophe, what is a Jew’s relation to the Jewish past? We resume our original question as we turn from one rupture in post-Holocaust Jewish existence—of the…
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Emil L. Fackenheim
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
1982
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The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews.
Why do we call ourselves Jews? Because we are Jews? What does that mean: we are Jews? I…
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Martin Buber
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1911
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To be a Jew in the twentieth century
Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse,
Wishing to be invisible, you choose
Death of the spirit, the stone insanity.
Accepting, take full life. Full agonies:
Your…
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Muriel Rukeyser
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1944