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In the year five thousand three hundred twenty-four [1564] of the Creation of the World, when we are returned to the houses of our fathers from the four corners of the world. After the expulsion in…
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Ḥevra Kadisha of Prague
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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16th Century
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Its sign is ה״שז
It is year 2 of the Sabbatical cycle
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year 3 of the small lunar cycle 299
year 9 of the large solar cycle 203
year 1837 [sic] of the Destruction of the Temple, may it be built and…
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Ezra Dangur
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
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1904
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Nicolaus Copernicus, from [Polish] Prussia, was a great man, who was more proficient in the field of astronomy than all the wise men of his age. Indeed, all the wise men of our time unanimously attest…
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David Ganz, David Ganz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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Beginning of the 17th Century
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On the preservation of one’s health when going to sleep and upon awakening. Our master, of blessed memory, wrote the following in laws 4 and 5 [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-mada, hilkhot de‘ot…
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Ioannes Aloysius Foppa de Rota, Jacob Tsahalon
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Ferrara, Papal States
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1683
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This is the book of the generations/children of man, those that were born by my hands among the Hebrew women. I came to them, I the midwife, for they are vital [Exodus 1:15–19] and give birth to a son…
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Wife of Leyzer ben Moses Judah Roza
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Groningen, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Groningen, Netherlands)
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1794–1832
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Since the methods of conducting surgical procedures have, for many years, been perfected to the highest degree in England and we do not have any treatise on the subject written in our…
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Samuel Benavente, Jacob de Castro Sarmento
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1744
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So, to begin in the manner now accepted, in which (by scholarly consensus) the practice is to lay one…
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Servius de Levis, Rodrigo de Castro
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1614
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In correctly understanding the truest theory, there were many opinions; but I will bring two…
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Meir Magino, Tuviah ha-Kohen
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1707
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Ira Jan
It is my task to introduce to the readers of Múlt és Jövő (Past and Future) to an extraordinary Jewish woman, and it is hard to tell whether she is a greater writer or artist. Those who say…
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Ira Jan
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
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1914
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In order to know whether our comet was one of the those that the astrologers described, it is necessary to…
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Asher bar Samuel ha-Kohen, Leyb ben Samuel Oppenheim, Jacob Rosales
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Lisbon, Portuguese Empire
(Lisbon, Portugal)
Date:
1619