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“A negative attitude toward the diaspora” is an expression frequently heard in discussions between the Zionists, who look beyond the diaspora for a solution to our national problem, and the…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1909
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A. Stories and sketches from life today and in the past; legends and poems.B. Articles about Jewish history and the Land of Israel, and the history of the achievements of…
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Simḥa Ben-Tsiyon
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1911
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The skeptics and rebels who have just recently appeared in our literature say: What? The Jews have survived? Yes, it’s true they have survived. But, my friends, survival alone is not yet a virtue…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Ottoman Palestine (Israel)
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1913
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So, after all, we have arrived again in a situation where we must confess. We younger ones had felt entitled to the hope that we would gradually succeed in living integrated into the “nation of Kant”…
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Hermann Cohen
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Marburg, Germany
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1880
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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
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Berlin, Germany
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1911
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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective Movement…
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Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, N. Minkov
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1919
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In recent years, a time when the branches of science planted in the vineyard of the Enlightenment stretch out to our brethren in our land [i.e., the Russian Empire], and many eat their fruit, and many…
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Mordechai Tsvi Mane
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1881
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Mr. [Israel Ḥayim] Taviov says: “Those who vehemently demand a large and broad literature in the Hebrew language, comprising all branches of wisdom and science—they are the ultranationalists of the…
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Ben-Avigdor
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
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1895
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Of all religious phenomena, there are few which, even when considered merely from the outside, give such an immediate impression of life, richness and complexity as…
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Marcel Mauss
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Paris, France
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1909
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The conventional pattern of living, based on propriety, on the requisites of good character and conformity to law—this corresponds to the way of the world of order. Every rebellion against this…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Ottoman Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1914