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Today is the eighth day since the evil tidings came that the crown has fallen from our head (Lam. 5:16). It was my obligation to see that we should immediately have arranged a great memorial service…
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Ezekiel Landau
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Prag, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1780
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- 5323 [1562]: King Maximilian, may he be exalted, came here, to Prague, on Monday the 6th of Tishri [5 September], and he was crowned on Hoshanah Rabba [the last day of Sukkot—20 September]. In that…
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Matthäus Merian, Anonymous
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1615
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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
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Nevertheless, I saw from the first that many people would open their mouths wide against me [see Psalms 22:14] and speak arrogantly against me and think it a sin on my part for my having written based…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel, George Braun, Franciscus Hogenberg, David Ganz
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1592
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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)
Date:
ca. 1697
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Anonymous
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1741