Showing Results 1 - 10 of 12
Public Access
Text
Image
The three problems that I first asked are explained in regard to all of that which I have said. The first: Why is it called the “Holy Land” and the “Holy Temple”? This is according to the fact that it…
Contributor:
Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik, Isaac Karo
Places:
Date:
Beginning of the 16th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
Subscription for the Year 1903 to the First Daily Zhargon (Yiddish) Newspaper in Russia, Der frayndPublished in Saint Petersburg by Sh. Ginzburg and Sh. Rapaport [S. An-ski]
Contributor:
Peysakh Marek
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1903
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
[Picture 1]I am king SolomonWith scepter and crownPikkolo is my chancellor.He stands near my throne.
Contributor:
Adele Sandler
Date:
ca. 1905
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
Image
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…
Contributor:
David Ganz, David Ganz
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
Beginning of the 17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
Moriah SoiréeBar GioraA Play in Seven ActsBy: David YellinAdapted from Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell(On the life of the Jews before the destruction of the Second Temple and their overthrowing of the Roman…
Contributor:
David Yellin, The Moriah Association
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1908
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
Lisbon, July 26. Here three rich Portuguese were detained on suspicion of secretly having practiced their faith. And their lives would have been spared if, God forbid, they would have…
Contributor:
Moses Bar Abraham
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1686–1687
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
The Messrs. Parnassim of T: T: [Talmud Torah—Ed.] having disclosed to the gentlemen of the Mahamad [board of governors—Ed.] and councillors the liberty which the students…
Contributor:
David Aboab, The Jewish Community of Curaçao
Places:
Date:
1728
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
My friends desired me to record the discussions I have had with those who reject the authority of the Oral Law; and, in compliance with their desire, I have gathered all that I found bearing on that…
Contributor:
James McArdell, David Esteves, Thomas Ilive, David Nieto
Places:
London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1714
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
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…
Contributor:
Ira Jan
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1914
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…
Contributor:
Unknown
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1907