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I had a vision in Salonika, as though the following words were said to somebody: Go lead Yakov the wise into the rooms and when you and he come to the first room, I admonish you that all the doors and…
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Jacob Frank
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ca. 1760
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Gwoździec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Hvizdets, Ukraine)
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Mid–17th Century.
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Lutsk (Łuck), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Lutsk, Ukraine)
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17th Century
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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Early 18th Century
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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17th Century
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Joseph Karo, Moses Isserles
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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1721/23
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The Isaac (or Izaak) Synagogue in Kraków was built in 1638–1644. Named after its donor, Izaak Jakubowicz (d. 1673), also known as Isaac the Rich, the synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis during World…
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Artist Unknown
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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1638–1645
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Behold I request of all standing at the gate to knock,
And he who wishes to enter deep within this composition of mine,
Let him understand and be wise and contemplate the introduction I have composed…
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Yeḥiel Heilperin
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(Minsk, Belarus)
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ca. 1697
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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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Amsterdam, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
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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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Venice, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
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1655