Jewish people (n.) is the soul of humanity, and for all its brute particularity, its life, its suffering, its essence is universalism.

Emmanuel Levinas on Jewish People

Jewish people

is not a model people, but a free people.

Israel is not a model people, but a free people.

is a people that has never ceased to produce myth.

The Jews are a people that has never ceased to produce myth.

has an eternity that is not the pride of a nationalism exacerbated by persecution.

The eternity of the Jewish people is not the pride of a nationalism exacerbated by persecution.

is a people of the Book: its actual land is based on the Revelation, and its nostalgia for the land is fed on texts.

It is in this sense, too, that Israel is a people of the Book, and that its relation to the Revelation is unique of its kind. Its actual land is based on the Revelation. Its nostalgia for the land is fed on texts. It derives nothing from belonging in some organic way to a particular piece of soil.

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is the soul of humanity, and for all its brute particularity, its life, its suffering, its essence is universalism.

And what is important to Israel's teaching is in fact important to all humankind. For all its brute particularity, its life, its suffering, the Jewish people is the soul of humanity, and its essence is universalism.

is, among the aristocracy of every land, built on a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years and in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

has its permanence in an exalted awareness of holiness and in the possibility of judging history — an 'eternity' that is not a privilege but a human possibility.

The permanence of Israel is in this awareness of holiness which is exalted and in this possibility of judging history; this 'eternity' of Israel is not a privilege but a human possibility,

hasidim

antisemitism

Hanukkah

Holocaust

passover

Judaism

diaspora

Hebrew

Kosher

rabbi

synagogue

Torah

Yiddish

Haavara Agreement

jewishness

philosemitism

Treblinka

Wannsee Conference

chosen people

Israel

beloved community

black community

coming community

commune

communities of practice

community of equals

community of fate

community of inquiry

community of love

community of lovers

community of sentiment

community of sufferers

community of the dying

community of those who have nothing in common

community without propinquity

fandom

Gemeinschaft

genuine community

ideal community

imagined community

inoperative community

international community

interpretive community

Khalsa

kibbutz

linguistic community

local linguistic community

moral community of citizens

natural community

nudist colony

parish

pseudo-gemeinschaft

rational community

reticulated community

settlement

speech community

town

yarmulke

gemeinschaft

khalsa

pseudo gemeinschaft

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