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The earth made noise as did the heavens, and the doorposts are shaking at the voice crying out that it would be wrong to publish hidden and sealed materials and to break through the fence established…
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Isaac de Lattes
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Pesaro, Duchy of Urbino (Pesaro, Italy)
Date:
1558
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This woodcut is an illustration in Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs), a very popular Yiddish book published by Giovanni di Gara, the leading publisher of Jewish books in Venice from 1564 to 1609. It…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1600/1
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O you paragon of glory and grace, listen to the call of Papos and his cry! He is bellowing like a bull, braying at you like a donkey, for you are his cow and his she-ass. His heart is already parched…
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Immanuel Frances
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17th Century
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Moses Cordovero, Artist Unknown
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1615
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1500
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There was a mysterious jar on one of the shelves. It contained about twenty gray, hard, colorless, tasteless little rods and did not have a label. This was very strange, because it was a German…
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Primo Levi
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Turin, Italy
Date:
1975
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Zusammen und zu Fuss.
Their backpacks on, Enzo and Mimmo walk at a steady pace along the Appian Way, not saying a word.
They won’t go very far this time though, because Enzo has a lot to do before…
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Clara Sereni
Places:
Perugia, Italy
Date:
1993
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Dorothy Bohm
Places:
Latina, Italy
Date:
1960–1969
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My soul sighs, fate brings only trouble.
My spirit was lifted, and I grew bold.
I heard a voice: ‘Your poem is gold.
Who has learned to sing like you, Rachel?’
My spirit in turn replies: I’ve lost…
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Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo
Places:
Trieste, Habsburg Empire (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1847
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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
Places:
Livorno, Holy Roman Empire (Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1778