Showing Results 1 - 10 of 17
Public Access
Text
In order to survive, a newspaper needs numerous subscribers, the help of the community, paid publications, the aid of the friends of education, the generosity of the nation, and the support of the…
Contributor:
Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1877
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan
On the hill of Samaria—
Who defraud the poor,
Who rob the needy;
Who say to your husbands,
“Bring, and let’s carouse!”
My Lord God swears by His…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Always, by the time the humid, breathless, summer night lifted its veil and a quiet, rosy dawn emerged, when some glimmers of soft, opaque light began to filter through the dried muddy, dusty window…
Contributor:
Dovid Mitzmacher
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The third whistle. Reb Zerakh Lilienthal clutched his beloved family to his heart, kissed them, and boarded the train. He did not have the strength to wish them well yet again. His throat was so tight…
Contributor:
Izabella
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1889
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Act II, Scene 3
Jezebel [Goes up to meet Ahab]:You have seen a conversion yourself? Do tell me!
Ahab [Bewildered]:Oh Jezebel! I am dying! I cannot breathe!
[Sinks into a chair.]
What is this? Am I…
Contributor:
Avraam Papo
Places:
Ottoman Empire (Bulgaria, Bulgaria)
Date:
1898
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The word of the Lord came to me: Now you, O mortal, intone a dirge over Tyre. Say to Tyre:
O you who dwell at the gateway of the sea,
Who trade with the peoples on many coastlands:
Thus said the…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The daughters of Zelophehad, of Manassite family—son of Hepher son of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh son of Joseph—came forward. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Philosopher:
I think I have fully grasped usque ad ultimas differentias the meaning of the Company, its shares, its principles, its reputation, its splendor, its initiation, its progress, its…
Contributor:
Joseph Penso de la Vega
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1688
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The other day I met a Jew from Shklov on Arbat Street, directly opposite the entrance to the Vakhtangov Theater, and he told me about the moon he knew in Shklov, which urged him to Moscow. The Jew was…
Contributor:
Shmuel Godiner
Date:
1928