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His princely Eminence has been pleased in his benevolence, while I am still confined to bed because of my illness to reveal to me sufficient to let me know that the matter has met with difficulties…
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Joseph Süss Oppenheimer
Places:
Stuttgart, Holy Roman Empire (Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1735
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Lord God, You are very merciful
So incline Your ears toward us
And Remove Your Anger from us
For the Great sins that we have. Father, King
committed
Day and night we will pray to God
To accept…
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Toybe Pan
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1680
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We read in Proverbs:
If you make your ear attentive to wisdom
And your mind open to discernment;
If you call to understanding
And cry aloud to discernment,
If you seek it as you do silver…
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Judah Loew
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1595
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The donkey greets the horse with his greeting. He says: “How is it that you are limping? Walk slowly to be sure you don’t fall. You’ll never be able to canter. You’ve surely grown old…
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Bernard Picart, Moses Wallich
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
Date:
1697
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“I’m called the offspring of the grape,” said the wine. “People drink me fervently, and I’m very fine. I can make people joke and jibe, I can drive away their terrible pains, I can delight their…
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Zalman Sofer
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
Date:
1517
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Certainly, dearest parents, I know what is commonly the result of the influence of education and of misunderstood religion, but is it possible that you could hate your son because he harbors other…
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Michael Joseph Edler von Arnstein
Places:
Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1783
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Most Distinguished Sir,
The undersigned, your most humble servant, is a wretched woman of twenty-three years of age. I was married for five and a half years to this Mr. Lucio Luzzatto, [but] I was…
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Relle Luzzatto Morschene
Places:
Trieste, Holy Roman Empire (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1794
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[ . . . ] Let us return to my maternal grandmother, Matte, of blessed memory. After she married off my late aunt Ulk, she was left penniless with the fatherless child my mother, may she live…
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Glikl bas Leyb Hamel
Places:
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1719
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This is the story of a queen who gave her daughter in marriage to a young king and then gave her the following instructions, inasmuch as she was about to be married. Since she was sending the daughter…
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Isaac ben Eliyakim of Posen
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1620
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Every day they took from us whatever their hearts desired. They said to us, “We are needed to protect you from the mob.” We had no choice but to believe them. We had to take being cheated. They…
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Elhanan Helen
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1616