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The idea of reopening the doors of Portugal and its colonies to Jews is not new. It is born out of a spirit of non-Jews and Jews, who know firsthand the nobility and high-mindedness of Portuguese…
What is this Jewish Prague that is so much talked about here? We don’t know it in a way that would allow us to define it or draw its image. But we know that it is a reality that lives in us and has an…
As I was completing the first volume of this book of ours, I was on my way to Vienna, and the late scholar, Mr. [Peretz] Smolenskin of blessed memory, in his desire to complete the printing, wrote…
I was born a Jew, and as I attained self-awareness, I realized that almost four thousand years of human history were working to present me with questions: How was I to understand myself as a Jew, how…
Jewish statistics began 3,000 years ago. But for the first time since the dispersion of the Jewish people an organization has been formed in their midst that has set itself the goal to produce a…
The Zionist movement in Pinsk expanded and developed, and some of the best [local] activists concentrated their efforts there. Activities, such as lectures, debates, and the sale of Shekels and Jewish…
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…
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…
A healthy mind lives in a healthy body!This old Latin adage never received proper attention among us Jews, although we do not doubt its truth. Accepted in theory, its thought did not…
Cast [in this passage]Abraham Levi: Rich merchantAneta: Abraham Levi’s wifeMax, Yosef, and Aron: Abraham and Aneta Levi’s sonsFrida and Klerchen: Abraham and Aneta Levi’s daughtersShmuel Natan: Zionis…