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Contributor:
Doña Reina Mendes
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1593–1595
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Contributor:
Jacob Huli
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1730
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This is the frontispiece of the Constantinople Polyglot Bible, the first of two multilingual editions of the Pentateuch printed by Eliezer Soncino in Constantinople. It contained the Hebrew text of…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1546
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Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1830
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The introduction to the first volume of this work, which you already have, explains that one must know what mitzvot God commanded us to perform, and what he obliged us to avoid, to find…
Contributor:
Me’am Lo’ez
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1764
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From the day that God confused all the languages of the land [see Genesis 11:9], through the bitter and rapid exile of the expulsion from Spain, since then all good things have ended for us; our glory…
Contributor:
Abraham Ibn Ya‘ish
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1505/6
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One day, I was reading a certain book, which contained eight commentaries on the Song of Songs. More precious than pearls they are; all of their commentaries are sapphires, the words of the living God…
Contributor:
Isaac Akrish
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1575–1578