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Berlin, 18 July 1777 Berlin, 13 Tammuz 5537
Dear Moses, may you live,
I hope that my letter will find you happy and in good spirits in Königsberg. We are all, thank G-d, well and alive, and when you…
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Fromet Guggenheim
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1777
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Flat Bush, Saturday, 10 o’c[lock]., August 10th, [17]’81
My dear Abby: [ . . . ]
[ . . . ] By the by, few N.York ladies know how to entertain company in their own houses unless they introduce the card…
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Rebecca Franks
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Flatbush, United States of America
Date:
1781
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Abraham Rademaker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1730/1
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Dad and Nimrod had an agreed-upon whistle. When dad whistled that whistle, even from a distance, Nimrod would immediately leap up from his place and race toward him. Dad said that this was the whistle…
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Yaacov Shavit
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1987
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After an absence of many years, I returned to Alsace in November 1856, in response to the invitation of an old friend. During this first and short visit, I was greatly moved in recovering all the…
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Auguste Widal (Daniel Stauben)
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Paris, French Republic
(Alsace, France)
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1849–1853
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When I try to think which game I like the most, I usually think of make-believe acting games. Even if they’re without masks, funny clothes, or old shoes with wrinkled tongues. Even if there’s no…
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Uzzi Ben Cnaan
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1979
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Judy Gelles
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Melbourne Beach, United States of America
Date:
1996
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In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture
and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots
I have never seen a post-war Philco
with the automatic eye
nor heard Ravel’s “Bolero”…
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Gerald Stern
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1982