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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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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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The fate of this idea of settling the Holy Land with Jews is like that of the fairy prince transformed by evil magic until rescued. The contemporary fairy godmothers of our people deserve our…
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Yeḥiel Mikhl Pines
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1892
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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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The Dreyfus trial transformed me into a Zionist. Not the current one in Rennes, but the original one in Paris that I witnessed in 1894. I was living in Paris then as a journalist and attended the…
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Theodor Herzl
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1899
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Social and judicial reforms will not solve the universal Jewish question, nor will they bring an answer to the Hungarian Jewish question; they can only solve internal technical issues, which, as we…
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Ármin Beregi
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
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1917
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The [Babylonian] Talmud in tractate Sanhedrin [109b] brings a statement that when a stranger came to the city of Sodom, he would be placed on a bed. Someone who was taller than the bed would have his…
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Yitsḥak Morganstern
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Sokolov, Russian Empire (Sokolov, Czech Republic)
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1918
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The purpose of the Jewish University is to offer Jewish youth the opportunity to obtain an education:A. In the general higher disciplines with special consideration given to the Wissenschaft des…
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Martin Buber, Chaim Weizmann, Bertold Feiwel
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Geneva, Switzerland
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1902
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Given the socioeconomic life-conditions that obtain in the capitalist countries, the Jewish national group [folk-grupe]—as a people without its own national economy—will inevitably always feel a sharp…
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Po‘ale Tsiyon Central Committee
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1905