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Menaḥem Mann Amelander (died before 1767) and Eliezer Soesman (Zusman) Rudelsum published the volumes of Sefer magishe minḥah between 1725 and 1729 in Amsterdam. Following the example of Sefer ha…
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Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch, Meir Cohen Belinfante, Isaac Siprut, Anonymous
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1725
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[…] Every year, out of 5.5 million Israeli Jewish citizens, about 50,000 travel to India as backpackers, most of them immediately after their military service. Backpacking is a very significant…
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Darya Maoz
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Albany, United States of America
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2005
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I am in hiding in a loft over a stable, in a village, with good people. The risk of death hovers over me, as it does over all Jews these days, and the slightest lapse of vigilance on my…
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Baruch Milch
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Warsaw, General Government
(Poland)
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1943
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At five o’clock in the morning our commanders stormed into the dormitories to wake us. No morning gymnastics. We are in a high state of alert. Our comrades who were on night duty report…
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Uri Avnery
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1948
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Today is Wednesday, February 17, 1943. Exactly twelve weeks have passed since we went into hiding here at Felek’s. Twelve weeks are eighty-four days and, if my arithmetic is correct, 2016 hours. That…
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Leyb Rochman
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Paris, France
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1949
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I was privileged to visit Lublin with my late father when I was a boy of nine, and I saw his [the Seer’s] face illuminated like torches. And when he opened the door to recite Ke-gavnah [An Aramaic…
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Isaac Judah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno
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1815
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After having arranged for fresh provisions and all kinds of refreshments, we set sail again, sailing away from land. Due to the wind’s silence, we proceeded into the sea without sailing, drifting for…
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Abraham Levie
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1750
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Moved by the fraternal love nourished in my…
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Moses Pereyra de Paiva
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin
(Ernakulam, India)
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1687
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On Tuesday afternoon prayers, when the cantor reaches Taḥanun [prayers of supplication], the groom walks to the door of the synagogue while the congregation recites Taḥanun, and…
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz, Georg Paul Nusbiegel, Judah Leib Kirchheim
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
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ca. 1631
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And in it they will find a commentary appropriate to everyone and in it many precious midrashim, sharp pilpulim, light and weighty, Sinai and uprooter of mountains (Berakhot 64a, that is both breadth…
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Nathan Hannover
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1652