"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
"Blood and fire and pillars of smoke—Joel (Yoel) 3:3—this is the whole history of the Jews; the rest is commentary; study it." ~~ Isaac Kaminer
"Our task today is harder than Moses’; he had only to deliver Israel from one Egypt, we must deliver it from many." ~~ Manachem Ussishkin
"One kingdom comes and another goes, but Israel abices for ever." ~~ Baraitha
"When you whitewash your home, leave a small patch bare to remind you of the Temple’s destruction! [Tisha B”Av] " ~~ Talmud, Bava Batra
"The future of a nation is in its past." ~~ Yochanan Tversky
"The concept of history is the product of Prophetism." ~~ Hermann Cohen
"A people’s memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better." ~~ Isaac Peretz
"The Jewish people is old in one way yet a babe in another." ~~ David Frishman
"The history of the Jewish people is like an axis crossing the history of mankind from one of its poles to the other." ~~ Simon Dubnow
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