"In Jewish history there are no coincidences. " ~~ Elie Wiesel
"Research into the past, as an aim in itself, without the “present”, is not worth a bean. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"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
"No nation can be redeemed save by itself." ~~ Theodor Herzl
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past." ~~ Baruch Spinoza
"No city in the world, not even Athens and Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"Our ancestors in the desert remembered the fine fish they used to eat in Egypt, but the hard labor they were made to do there they forgot." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"Just as the nation creates its own history, so, too, is it created by it." ~~ Simon M. Dubnov
"The inner history of a people is contained in its songs." ~~ Rabbi Adolph Jellinek
"When you whitewash your home, leave a small patch bare to remind you of the Temple’s destruction! [Tisha B”Av] " ~~ Talmud, Bava Batra
"I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." ~~ Woody Allen
"One kingdom comes and another goes, but Israel abices for ever." ~~ Baraitha
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