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I am your God and Lord
Who with infinite power
Freed you from Egypt
Where you lived in suffering
And harsh despair.
Do not revere
Foreign gods before me,
And make no trophies
In the likeness of the…
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Leonor de Carvajal
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1589–1595
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Abraham Chajkes was famous throughout the town, nay, even throughout the entire district, as a decent, “solid,” wealthy merchant. [ . . . ]
He gave his growing children the best education according to…
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Wilhelm Feldman
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Kraków, Russian Empire (Kraków, Poland)
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1889
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Assimilation, taken literally, means making things similar to each other, and in this concrete instance refers to a desire for the assimilation of Jews in terms of language, culture, and customs to…
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Adam Wizel
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1910
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“Is the Bene-Israel in India a pure Jew by descent” is the question often asked and discussed. There has been considerable literature on the subject especially by aliens, even such as can claim little…
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Jacob Bapuji Israel
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Bombay, British India (Mumbai, India)
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1918
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Are we always and in all circumstances united with our surroundings, so that only the synagogue, rather than society, attests to separation?
Do not believe that in such unity and cooperation I mean…
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Abraham Wertheim
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1893
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Passover is coming soon and I ask you to invite me to the seder. Let me in!
I won’t cost you very much. I don’t eat kneydlekh! Don’t serve me maror, the bitter herbs—I was born with them!
Do not ask…
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David Pinski, Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1895
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The Jews in Poland still have a very demanding and holy task ahead of themselves. Or, to be more exact, they have a holy, lofty, most important and most responsible mission. Hasidism was born in…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1916
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The Sultan Selim loved the Jews very much, for he realized that with their help he could strike nations and kill mighty kings. [ . . . ] And it came to pass on the third day, when the…
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Elijah Capsali
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Candia, Republic of Venice (Heraklion, Greece)
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ca. 1523
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This disunity among us, the lack of piousness for one another, the civil war of murmurings in places where conversations and visits occur, evils that have caused the past and…
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Jacob de Castro Sarmento
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1723
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For twenty-two years I have been one of the parnasim [board members] and leaders of this magnificent congregation, the city of Lwów; my heart has moved me to do good work in memory of the generations…
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Solomon Buber
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Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1894