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• I am now hated by Christian and Jew alike; I very much regret my baptism, nothing but misfortune has occurred to me ever since.

  Thomas W. Laqueur

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• Those who assimilated in 19C were dying to become the monkeys of European civilization.

  Thomas W. Laqueur

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• Tchernichovsky , or Simon Dubnow or Achad  HaAm, or the German neo – Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen, one is obliged to recognize that for these thinkers (regardless of how little they prayed, or how little observed…) the center of their life was the Jewish people…The new Jewish intellectual, although he still works against the sacral models of scholar, sage and prophet, has turned these models away from Judaism and into self-sustaining ideological postures.

  Jacob Neusner

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• In close to two decades since World War 11, we have witnessed the greatest single synagogue boom in the whole of Jewish history in the Diaspora.

  Jacob Neusner

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• The impetus for intellectual and religious reform…was not simply a desire to find amelioration from the physical oppression of the ghetto. It was rather a desire for emancipation from the essence of the Jewish condition.

  Charles Liebman

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• If Jewish parents neglect the Jewish education of their children, one can safely assume that they do not care about their Jewish children. It remains for their children to decide whether this absence of tenderness was directed at them as children or as Jews

  Ruth R. Wisse

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• Thus, the insistence on Jews remaining Jews, which may take the religiously indifferent forms of liking Yiddish jokes, supporting Israel, raising money for North African Jews, and preferring certain kinds of food, has a potentially religious meaning…Dead in one, two or three generations, it may come to life in the fourth.

  Jacob Neusner

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• I am first a Jew and an Israeli only second.

  Moshe Dayan

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• Someone shocked me by pointing out to me that all my books-my autobiography and my three novels-seem to have the same theme. Each is about a man who is coming to terms with himself, who is looking back at who he was, and who he is and wondering who he will become. And each man is a Jew. When I read it now, I see it plainly. I see that no matter how far I ran away from my Jewishness, it was always there. Sometimes it was behind me, or to the side, or in front of  me, but it was always there. ….

  Kirk Douglas

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• I am now hated by Christian and Jew alike; I very much regret my baptism, nothing but misfortune has occurred to me ever since.

  Heinrich Heine

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• I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can’t name you 20 people outside those we’ve already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

  David Baker

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