"I have pitched my tent on these ancient hills and my desire is to tie together the ends of the thread that history broke." ~~ Reubin Rubin
"The philosophy of a nation is to be found in its proverbs at times. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"History has no time to be just…She keeps her eyes fixed on the victorious, and leaves the vanquished in the shadows." ~~ Stefan Zweig
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past." ~~ Baruch Spinoza
"The Jews are God’s stake in human history." ~~ A. J. Heschel
"The historian’s special interest in the Jewish nation is due to its being the only one that is met with at evey turn of history." ~~ James Darmsteter
"Just as the nation creates its own history, so, too, is it created by it." ~~ Simon M. Dubnov
"Judaism is an historical religion." ~~ Moses Hess
"Many pens are broken, and seas of ink consumed, to descibe things that never happened." ~~ Midrash Tanchuma
"History, far from repeating itself, occasionally produces startling surprises." ~~ Reuven Alcalay
"To see in history a moral purpose and a task for a people on earth is a great discovery, far more important than the accounts of battles and intrigues that have plagued humanity from time immemorial." ~~ Jacob Singer
"The inner history of a people is contained in its songs." ~~ Rabbi Adolph Jellinek
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