The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
I. L. PeretzPurim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
I. L. PeretzIn the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!
I. L. Peretz[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!
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