When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literature, Philosophy, and Mythology
- Aldoux Huxley (4.98)
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (4.102, 106)
- Russell and Whitehead, Principia Mathematica (4.137, 10.10)
- Hayyim Nahman Bialik (5.10)
- New York Times (3.68, 5.10)
- Ivanhoe (3.232)
- Junior Scholastic (5.10)
- John Keats (8.4)
- Dante (8.4)
- Leo Tolstoi (8.4)
- Balzak (8.4)
- William Shakespeare (8.4)
- Graetz, History of the Jews (8.18)
- Journal of Symbolic Logic (8.6, 10.10)
- Suzanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key (10.10)
- Pirkei Avot (Ethics of our Fathers) (8.84)
- Milton Steinberg, The Making of the Modern Jew (10.24)
- Samson Raphael Hirsch, The Nineteen Letters of Ben Uzzie (10.24)
Historical References
- Charles Darwin (4.99)
- Jesus (8.4)
- Theodore Herzl (5.10, 8.20)
- Chaim Azriel Weizmann (5.10)
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (5.10, 7.144, 11.14, 11.16, 11.19, 11.22)
- Albert Einstein (5.19, 7. 144, 8.4)
- Bogdan Chmielnicki (6.9)
- Shabbtai Zvi (6.11)
- Mohammed (8.4)
- Galileo (8.4)
- Martin Luther (8.4)
- Copernicus (8.4)
- Kepler (8.4)
- Aristotle (6.35)
- Maimonides (6.35)
- Spinoza (6.35)
- Leibniz (6.35)
- Hume (6.35)
- Kant (6.35)
- Rabban Gamaliel (133)
- Esav (7.136)
- Amalek (7.136)
- Adolf Hitler (7.136, 8.151, 186)
- Rabbi Yochanan son of Zakkai (7.136)
- Mohammed (8.4)
- Dove Baer (8.23, 8.27)
- Rabbi Elijah of Vilna (8.23)
- Sigmund Freud (3.252, 8.46, 8.48, 8.70, 8.78, 8.40, 8.64, 13.1)
- Ben Gurion (12.9, 8.20)
- Anthony Eden (12.6)
Pop Culture
- Life Can Be Beautiful (3.167)
- Stella Dallas (3.167)
- Mary Noble (3.167)
- Ma Perkins (3.167)