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18 Elul 5502 [1742]
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The Jewish Community of Tykocin
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Tykocin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)
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1742
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And now we see that the number of servants breaking away from their Master, our Heavenly Father, increases daily, in that whenever they have a quarrel with their Jewish brothers or sisters they have…
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Azriel Diena
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Sabbioneta, Duchy of Mantua (Sabbioneta, Italy)
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1536
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In the eponymate of Dayan-Ashur, on the 14th of Aiaru (Iyyar), I set out from Nineveh . . .
I set out from the Euphrates and approached Aleppo. They (i.e., the inhabitants of Aleppo) were afraid of…
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853–824 BCE
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The Parnassim of the Kehillat Kodesh dei Tedeschi (Ashkenaz), Moise di Tardiola and . . . . [blank] give full authority to Rabbi Azriel to make taqqanot (ordinances or statutes):
- All members must pray…
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The Tedeschi (German) Congregation of Venice
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1541
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To the city of Yemen, Sheikh Shalom, on the 4th of Shevat [9th January 1742] from the Constantinople officials, may the Lord protect them.
The son of a valiant man, who had done mighty deeds, of…
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Constantinople Officials
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1742
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Copy of the authorization of the honored Officials sent from the holy city.
We, the undersigned, the sages and elders and patrons and officials and leaders of the holy city of Jerusalem, attest a…
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Constantinople Officials
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1746
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To the Most Serene Prince and to the Most Honorable and Wise Senators of the Venetian Republic
Free Wisdom befits a Free Republic, most Serene Prince, most honorable Senators, whom Freedom of their…
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Isaac Cardoso
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Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
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1673
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I have always backed off from the word.
In the Thirties Europe meant French. But was it only then? Not in earlier centuries? A bloody lesson learned that Europe was Balmazújváros as well as Notre…
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Ottó Orbán
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Budapest, Hungary
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1978
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In their glory days during the Renaissance, the king’s fools occupied a privileged place at court: dressed in sumptuous garments comparable in every detail to those of the kingdom’s great, in scarlet…
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Pierre Birnbaum
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Paris, France
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1992
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During my first few years as the lone Prog M. P., I found myself confronted by a series of vicious laws designed to undermine civil rights and to intensify discrimination…
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Helen Suzman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1993