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Dear Parents:
I hope my letter will ease your mind. You can now be reassured and send me one of the family to Charleston, South Carolina. This is the place to which, with God’s help, we will go after…
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Rebecca Samuel
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Petersburg, United States of America
Date:
ca. 1792
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I just can’t. Should I? I feel like going in, but I just can’t; I remain stationary. The church door opens and closes, continually, and I open and close with it, split asunder. Warmth escapes from…
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Alberto Dines
Places:
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date:
1972
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Robert Frank
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1955
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David Fresco
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1892
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Joseph Zvi Geiger
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1893
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The Molad is Wednesday evening, 10 minutes and 9 halakim on 6 [6:10.9 pm]
Iyar 5675—April 1915—Taurus—(29 days)
[Hebrew Date]
[Day of the week]
[Christian Date]
[Islamic Date]
1st
Thursday
Se…
Contributor:
Eliezer Ya‘akov Podhorzer
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Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1914
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The sages say, that at the time the Syrian-African Rift
occurred, the celestial inhabitants were not
up-to-date. Each man was engaged
at his trade. In grinding…
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Avot Yeshurun
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1973
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[In the royal palace. In the background stands the throne; on it sits the royal couple. To the left of the throne stand Klemens and the ladies of the court; to the right Count Lubecki and the…
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Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1896
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Of all festivities celebrated among the Jews in southern Russia, the wedding ceremony has suffered the greatest loss of characteristic elements of folk tradition. Even among the poorest, weddings are…
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Shmuel Veisenberg
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1905
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Early 20th Century