"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
"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
"The future of a nation is in its past." ~~ Yochanan Tversky
"The concept of history is the product of Prophetism." ~~ Hermann Cohen
"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
"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
"History is not merely the record of a string of occurrences. It is an attempt to seize occurrences in their pattern." ~~ Leon Roth
"The history of the world is the judge of the world." ~~ H ermann Ullmann