Quotation from Nathan Birnbaum “In the uniqueness of race, the uniqueness of the nation is enfolded” — 1886
Inventor of the concept of Zionism, from which he distanced himself after 1898.
- Birnbaum, Nathan (1864-1937) ( 1 quotation )
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"The insights and mental dispositions of a nation may not he explained otherwise than by the natural sciences. "Race is everything," said our great race-member, Lord Beaconsfield [Benjamin Disraeli]. In the uniqueness of race, the uniqueness of the nation is enfolded. National variation is founded on racial differences. It is by virtue of race that the German or the Slav feels different from the Jew. In this antagonism one must look for the explanation that the Germans produced in the Song of the Nibelungen, while the Jew created the Bible
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Nationalism and Language (1886). Quoted by Raphael Falk, Zionism and the Biology of Jews, Springer, 2006, p. 50.
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