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I am your God and Lord
Who with infinite power
Freed you from Egypt
Where you lived in suffering
And harsh despair.
Do not revere
Foreign gods before me,
And make no trophies
In the likeness of the…
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Leonor de Carvajal
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1589–1595
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If we sang praises to the Lord
Every day with as much care
As He takes in giving us joy
And in showing His favor in every part of our lives,
Then our suffering would not be relentless
And no great…
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Leonor de Carvajal
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(Hogg’s Kloof, South Africa)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto to the prince and magnate, chieftain and nobleman, our teacher R. Menaḥem Azariah de Fano—may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him—greetings to his glorious excellency!
Beh…
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Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto
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Cremona, Spanish Empire
(Cremona, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1574
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I admit my guilt in that Christmas past, my said husband Juan Estevan told me how his daughter Inés had ascended to the sky and saw there the deceased and the living; and how the conversos were very…
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Beatriz Ramírez of Alcázar
Places:
Herrera del Duque, Spanish Empire
(Herrera del Duque, Spain)
Date:
1500/1501
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Abraham Ibn Ezra
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Córdoba, Spanish Empire
(Córdoba, Spain)
Date:
18th Century
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Thus said Abraham the son of Samuel the son of Abraham Zacuto, may his memory be for the world to come. [ . . . ] [T]o bring merit upon myself and others, I was motivated to write this…
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Uri of Biella, Abraham Zacuto
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Salamanca, Spanish Empire
(Salamanca, Spain)
Beja, Portuguese Empire
(Beja, Portugal)
Tunis, Hasfid Dynasty
(Tunis, Tunisia)
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ca. 1505
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In view of the fact that many interfere with their neighbors’ vested rights to have sole privilege of lending money at interest in certain localities, and very often the agency of the non-Jewish…
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The Jewish Communities of Cremona, Venice, and Rome
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Cremona, Spanish Empire
(Cremona, Italy)
Date:
1582
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In the days when…
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Jacob Cansino
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Madrid, Spanish Empire
(Madrid, Spain)
Date:
1638
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O most high and sovereign Creator of heaven and earth, not one of Your countless creatures can resist Your will. Without it neither men nor birds nor brutish beasts could live upon the earth. Unless…
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Luis de Carvajal
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(Nuevo León, Mexico)
Date:
1596
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Prosecutor’s evidence: In Herrera on the twenty-first of May in the year 1500, before the lord inquisitors in the general inquisition.
Witness: Inés, daughter of Juan Esteban, residing in the town of…
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Inés of Herrera
Places:
Herrera del Duque, Spanish Empire
(Herrera del Duque, Spain)
Date:
1501