Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Berl Katznelson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an editor Berl Katznelson.
Last updated on November 20, 2024.
Berl Katznelson

Berl Katznelson was one of the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to the establishment of the modern state of Israel, and the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper of the workers' movement.

Editor | January 25, 1887 - August 13, 1944
We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.
We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses
There is only a single step between impurity and purity. — © Berl Katznelson
There is only a single step between impurity and purity.
Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives and the land.
Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning for freedom and has given this craving a folk expression which includes every soul in Israel, every single downtrodden pauperized soul!
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