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The year 5480 of the creation of the earth and heaven, in the first month, which is the month of Nisan, the wailing of the oppressed increased. For then the hooligans began to cut off and harry the…
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Shabbetai ha-Kohen Katz
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Vilna, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1651
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[To the tune of “Adir ayom ve-nora.”]
Come, dear friends, let us cry and lament
The horrible things that have happened in these times.
In the year that Messiah was expected amid tribulation [1648],…
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Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
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1648
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Now we shall begin to describe the confrontation of the King of Sweden with the King of Poland. First, the aforementioned King of Sweden came to the holy community of Posen [Poznań], a major Jewish…
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Samuel Feibush
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1655
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The Oppressor Chmiel, may his name be blotted out, heard that many Jews had gathered in the holy community of Nemirow, and that they had a great deal of…
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Nathan Hannover
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1653