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Most Distinguished Sir,
The undersigned, your most humble servant, is a wretched woman of twenty-three years of age. I was married for five and a half years to this Mr. Lucio Luzzatto, [but] I was…
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Relle Luzzatto Morschene
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Trieste, Holy Roman Empire
(Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1794
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Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor, Artist Unknown
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16th Century
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Isaac ben Samuel Bassan, Giacomo Rufinelli
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1560
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I will print this book in ink as a remembrance and a sign, a memorial for my dear children. For now I will reveal their strength with words, as a reminder for them and their children…
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Judah Peretz
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1712
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Art, which gives men the means to persevere and cure some sicknesses, seems nowadays to depend on philosophy, which is that great and clear source that produces all that is luminous and useful. I am…
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Joseph Vita Castelli
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Livorno, Holy Roman Empire
(Livorno, Italy)
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1774
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A scion from Portugal by the name of Solomon Molkho sprouted forth from the trunk of Israel [see Isaiah 11:1] and spent his youth among the scribes of the king—where they had been scattered since the…
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Solomon Molkho
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Amsterdam, Holy Roman Empire
(Italy)
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1531/32
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“I, too, have authority, the authority of the Lord, blessed be He, of the Shekinah and all the members of the Heavenly Academy.”
[Padua, 16 March 1730]
Oh, thou great Prince, lofty pillar, Gaon R…
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Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
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1730
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1770
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[The lessons a mother should give her son]: My son, you should know that before your body looked the way it does now, it was nothing. You were formed in my belly from the drops of fertility that came…
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David Attias
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Livorno, Holy Roman Empire
(Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1778
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Do not judge me so vain (O Reader) that, to make myself wise, I would publish my efforts for the world to see, especially when they open your eyes to their pathetic titles. For this is a…
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Angelo (Mordechai) de Soria
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Livorno, Holy Roman Empire
(Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1751