Showing Results 51 - 56 of 56
Public Access
Text
Image
Now we have already informed all those present of the main point: we have come to inform and announce and make known to His Excellency, because this is the custom, what it is his duty toward us. For…
Contributor:
Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1640
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
It has been a long, sorrowful time that Mr. Solomon Ha-Kohen of Tangier (may God protect him) has been living here with us in Fez (may God protect it), upset angry, and bitter. We did not know what…
Contributor:
David Nieto, Jacob Ibn Tsur
Places:
Fez, Alawi Dynasty
(Fes, Morocco)
Date:
1744
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
This book is a translation of all the Laws that are necessary for people of whatever sort. Translated from the book written by the accomplished sage who edited and expanded the Law in…
Contributor:
Unknown
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
When the Lord enlarged the border of the Jewish people, and they increased and grew exceedingly mighty, and the land was filled with knowledge of the Lord [see Exodus 1:7; Isaiah 11:9] by the…
Contributor:
David ben Samuel ha-Levi
Places:
Ostróg, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Ostroh, Ukraine)
Date:
1646
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
Question: The following incident occurred: The gentlemen, R. Abraham Vidal, may he rest in peace, was married to the modest lady, Estrella, sister of the fine young man, R. David Pinto, may God…
Contributor:
Paul Christian Kirchner, Jacob Castro
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
At a sitting of three judges we the undersigned sat as a court on the fourth day of the month of Adar 2 in the year 5376 [1616] here in Vercelli after permission was given to us from his excellency…
Contributor:
Joseph Ravena
Places:
Vercelli, Dutchy of Savoy
(Vercelli, Italy)
Date:
1617