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Signs of a new spirit among certain circles of the Jewish intelligentsia can be detected even in the private sphere, within the four walls of their homes. It happens—admittedly, not very often, but…
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Esther Frumkina
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Minsk, Russian Empire (Minsk, Belarus)
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1908
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There is no denying that under the influence of this enthusiasm for America, the disintegrating process of the Melting Pot is taking place in large measure. That it is not, fortunately, taking place…
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Judah L. Magnes
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1909
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Everyone who passes among those numbered from twenty years old and upward shall give his tribute to the Lord.
. . . As we number the congregation and lament that the young do not always take the…
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David de Sola Pool
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1912
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Is there a Jewish people? Thousands of Jews, whose language at school and in daily discourse is Hebrew, are again living in Palestine. Neo-Hebrew literature has essayists like Ahad Ha-Am, poets like B…
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Ludwig Strauss
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1912
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October 10, 1912Berlin-GrunewaldDelbrückstr. 23 Dear Mr. Strauß!That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, Germany
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1912
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Honorable Editor,Please publish the following remarks in your newspaper:We, the students in the upper classes of the Palestinian high schools, sent a protest as follows to Messrs Shmaryahu Levi[n], Ah…
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Haifa, Ottoman Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
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1913
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The library is an integral part of public education.—“Public Libraries.”
The library and the public school occupy the most important…
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Helene Sheinberg
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1913
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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)
Date:
1890
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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)
Date:
1897
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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