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Be it known that there was a man in Stuttgart in the state of Württemberg, who became ever greater in the stubbornness of his heart and his pride, in his wealth and his wisdom, and he was called…
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Salomon Schechter
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1738
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At the gate of the inner courtyard, where the eunuchs and all of the great men of the kingdom were standing before the king, they were standing there, and Amira was sitting, and the aforementioned…
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Unknown
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1671
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Now I shall come to fulfill your desire by writing to you at length about the customs of the residents of the land of Israel; for although I also wrote to you by way of the pilgrims, and I sent them…
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Israel of Perugia
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1517–1523
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Behold, from the time of our settlement in the city that the Lord has chosen, which He had desired for His habitation (Psalms 132:13), we heard your voice and obeyed, for you stand in the breach…
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Students of the Jerusalem Yeshiva
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1521
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Anyone arriving from Western Europe by steamship to Mohilev for the first time will be struck on the dock by nothing as much as by the enormous throng of…
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Sara Rabinowitsch
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1903
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Tunis, Rosh Ḥodesh Adar 5648
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they commit falsehood; and the thief enters in, and the troop of…
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Shalom Flāḥ
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1888
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“Consummatum est!” I could exclaim on January 1, 1876.The minister [Jozsef Eötvös] frivolously deceived me. His promise turned out to be a premeditated lie. Scorn and sarcasm were his response when I…
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Ignác Goldziher
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Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1890
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This book tells a true story. In it, what was probably the strangest youth who ever lived, shall speak with its own voice. This life needs to be believed, as strange as it may seem. But strangeness…
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Karl M. Baer
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1907
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On August 20, 1906, the settlers of the Jewish Colonization Association, meeting in the town of Basavilbaso, Lucienville Colony…
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J. M. Salva
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1908
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You have a simplistic picture of a pogrom. A well-off and respected shopkeeper lives a proud and happy life. All at once, angels of destruction pop out of nowhere and within minutes they…
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Alexander Kapel
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911