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Contributor:
Peter Fehr
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1717
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Question 4: Reuben, a young Torah scholar from the city of Tiberias, contracted a marital arrangement with Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Jacob, from the city of Sepphoris. This is the text of the…
Contributor:
Joseph Katzabi
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
Second Half of the 17th Century
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Yetkhen:
And how crude he was with me! He wants to arrange with Papa to marry me! How do you like that? I’d like to meet the man who’ll force me to marry someone! No! No father can do that—I…
Contributor:
Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
Places:
Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia
(Wrocław, Poland)
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1796
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At a sitting of three judges we the undersigned sat as a court on the fourth day of the month of Adar 2 in the year 5376 [1616] here in Vercelli after permission was given to us from his excellency…
Contributor:
Joseph Ravena
Places:
Vercelli, Dutchy of Savoy
(Vercelli, Italy)
Date:
1617
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Meanwhile Reb Zalman, all undeterred, was arranging a match for Deborah, and one evening he arrived with a brand new proposal, one that was—in these hard modern times—almost too good to…
Contributor:
Esther Singer Kreitman
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1936
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Good words of the society of orphan girls of Izmir. In the Name of the Holy One, regulations and new ordinances established for the good governance and with worthy dissemination, with which we must…
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Cornelis de Bruyn, The Dotar (Provision of Dowries for Poor Brides) Confraternity of Izmir
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1644
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Most magnificent and honored bride, my lady I gaze upon you:
Since I left Piacenza, I can honestly say that I am far away from my life. Oh, how can I live, and how can I hold up my limbs when I am so…
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Honorata Foa, Salamone Candia
Places:
Ferrara, Papal States
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1590