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David Nieto
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1714
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Sebastian Münster
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Basel, Swiss Confederacy
(Basel, Switzerland)
Date:
1541
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In the year 5289 (1528/29), the holy martyrs of Pösing, 36 souls—men and women, youths and young girls—were arrested because of a false accusation made by a mamzer, and they died for the…
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Josel of Rosheim
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(Alsace, France)
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1551/2
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Now since the episode of the earthquake has already been mentioned, in order that all those who come after us should be aware of it, I shall place on record what occurred in relation to the earthquake…
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Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
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ca. 1688
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The slaughter that occurred there, in Lisbon:
I was out of the city, and when I returned after several days they told me that the two [events, namely, the massacre within Lisbon and in the surrounding…
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Solomon Ibn Verga
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
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ca. 1520
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Menachem Vivante (b. 1650) was a rabbi in Corfu in the eighteenth century and a member of a prominent merchant family. In this oil portrait, painted when he was eighty-five years old, he is depicted…
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Artist Unknown
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Kérkyra (Corfu), Ottoman Empire
(Corfu, Greece)
Date:
1735
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Johannes Buxtorf
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Basel, Swiss Confederacy
(Basel, Switzerland)
Date:
1661
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The current expenses of the city of Jerusalem, may it be speedily rebuilt and reestablished in our days, are close to five thousand kuruş per annum. This is not the case for Safed and Hebron. In the…
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Raphael Mordechai Malki
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Late 17th Century
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This is to announce to all interested in my book that when the head of the printers, the princely Daniel Bomberg, the Christian, decided to print the Twenty…
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Elye Bokher
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1538
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1. Whenever the term idolaters appears, and it is not clearly referring…
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Domenico Gerosolomitano
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1596