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A member of the Greek Church, once addressed me in the following words:—“Do you know wherefore you have no longer a king of your own people? It is because you have rejected the faith of…
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Isaac Troki
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Altdorf, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Date:
1593
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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
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Bylaws of the Holy Society for Torah Study of the holy community of Kraków, instituted by our rabbis, the Rema [Moses Isserles], ha-Baḥ [Joel Sirkes], known by the title of his book, Bayit ḥadash [Ne…
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The Talmud Torah Society of Kraków
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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1635
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What is sweeter than honey? (Judges 14:18) a honeycomb of delights.
And what is more to be desired than gold, and a multitude of rubies (Proverbs 20:15)?:
This precious treatise of great worth.
Inclu…
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Isaac Prostitz
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1589
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Ze’ev ben Abraham [?]
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Piotrków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland)
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1766
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The communal treasurer stands on guard at the entrance to the rabbi’s home to make inquiry concerning every invalid or cripple, and by what name he is called. One can hear the noise of the people as…
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David of Makev
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(Maków Mazowiecki, Poland)
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ca. 1798
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The Rema Synagogue, named after the famous rabbi and scholar Moses Isserles (known by the Hebrew acronym “Rema”), was built in 1553 in the city of Kazimierz (today a district of Kraków). It was…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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1553 and 1557
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This partially gilt-silver Torah crown from Poland is studded with semi-precious stones. Its two-tiered base is typical of Torah crowns from Eastern Europe. It is inscribed in Hebrew with the words,…
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Artist Unknown
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1729
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The wooden synagogue in Chodorów, near Lvov, Poland (now Khodoriv, near Lviv, Ukraine), built in 1652, was destroyed by the Nazis. The austere outside—shown here in an early twentieth-century, black…
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Chodorów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Khodoriv, Ukraine)
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1652 and 1714
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Inasmuch as the association of balbirer [artisan barbers] have seen boys break away from their masters and think of themselves as expert physicians, and, on account of which, they have failed in…
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Matteo Gucci, The Guild of Barbers of Kraków
Places:
Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1639