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In October 1919, Shmaryahu Levin sent out letters to several prominent Jewish European scholars. The letters concluded with a simple yet effective question: »What would make the Hebrew University Hebrew?« One of the recipients of this letter was the Hungarian Orientalist Ignác Goldziher.

Im Interview des lettisch-amerikanischen Psychologen David P. Boder mit dem Holocaustüberlebenden Isaac Wolf geraten die Interessen des Forschers und die individuellen Bedürfnissen des Befragten in Konflikt.

In August 1934, Jewish delegates from twenty countries congregated at the Bureau Central in Geneva for the third preparatory World Jewish Conference. The representatives  had accepted Nahum Goldmann’s invitation to push forward with the founding of a new transnational Jewish advocacy organization.

The correspondences of historian Uriel Tal confronts us with questions concerning the relationship between the structure of analogical reasoning, which he carefully applied, and the normative principles guiding his work. A letter to his colleague Isaiah Berlin in the summer of 1981 provides a few hints.