"But before and after the Mongol upheaval, the Khazars sent many offshoots into the unsubdued Slavonic lands, helping ultimately to build up the great Jewish centers of eastern Europe."

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Source : Salo Wittmayer Baron (1957). “A Social and Religious History of the Jews”

Salo Wittmayer Baron

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“Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.”
“Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.”
“I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.”
“President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.”
“I'm not an expert here. I'm talking about an experience I had rather than something I intellectually worked out. From what I can gather, the original mystery religions are still, largely, as the name suggests, mysterious. But they are associated with intoxication, fertility and resurrection.”
“I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.”
“We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
“Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.”

Source : "May the Source Be With You". Article adapted from "The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World", www.wired.com. December 01, 2001.

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