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“In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw.”

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Moses Hess (January 21, 1812 - April 6, 1875) was a German philosopher and socialist, considered one of the forerunners of the Zionist movement. more

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