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I have written this down in connection with all that befell us during that year five thousand five hundred and sixty-nine [1809] here, in our holy community of Pressburg. Now an omen of this had…
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Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire
(Bratislava, Slovakia)
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1809
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The River Jordan runs through the valley and empties into Great Salt Lake. The city is thirty miles from the Lake, and the valley is entirely surrounded with high mountains topped with snow, winter…
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho
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Salt Lake City, United States of America
Date:
1856
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Behold, I am aged and my eyes are dim and my hands heavy and shaky, and at a time when my strength, enabling me to remain standing upon my watch, is ebbing away—with the yoke of the…
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Pinchas Katzenellenbogen
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Boskovice, Holy Roman Empire
(Boskovice, Czech Republic)
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1760
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Without warning, on the 20th of April, 1749, at the end of the Passover Festival, Sunday, at about 17 hours [noon], I was kidnapped and taken away by force thanks to a false denunciation made against…
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Anna del Monte
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
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1749
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I adapted the above psalm to my situation, for the blessed Lord freed me from the Inquisition—although broken, I was released and free—where I saw eleven seeming penitents burned to death for heresy…
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David Abenatar Melo
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1626
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Mildred Lubritz Covert was born in uptown New Orleans in 1927 and ate a rich mix of eastern European, creole, and African American foods throughout her childhood. She later chronicled this cuisine in…
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Marcie Cohen Ferris
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Chapel Hill, United States of America
Date:
2005
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As I thought, I couldn’t manage it the next day, or the day after that. I continued to struggle to write even after three days. And now, too (four days later), I didn’t think I’d…
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Moshe Flinker
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1942
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Few events of a similar kind ever attracted the attention of the public, in such a degree, as the contests between Mr. Humphreys and myself. The long correspondence which passed between us previous to…
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Daniel Mendoza
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London, United Kingdom
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1816
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Remember me, O my God, for the good (Nehemiah 5:19). Amen
I began to write the first Torah Scroll, with the help of God, today, 2 Heshvan, the twenty-second of October, in the year 5302 [1541]. It…
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Meir ben Ephraim of Padua
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
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1541–1580
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In 1930, Chaim Elazar Shapiro (Spira), the Hasidic rebbe of Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (today, Mukachevo, Ukraine), traveled by rail to Vienna and Trieste and by ship to Alexandria, where he and his…
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Moshe Goldstein
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1930