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Even in the past, some thirty to forty years ago, when Jewish life in Russia was still very conservative, there was a difference between those cities and towns located…
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Meir Berlin
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1933
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Scenes from everyday life are scarcely to be found in these pages. Rather you will feel that you have been transported for a while to some far-off, exotic country where different flowers grow and…
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Jirí Langer
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1937
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Gentlemen, today is the seventh of Adar, the anniversary of the death of Moses our teacher, of blessed memory. We have gathered in…
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Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich
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1939
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[A deserted place on the bank of the river outside of Prague. Daybreak. All is dark and silent. Reb Levi Bar Bezalel, or the maharal, an old man of seventy, stands over an outlined mound…
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H. Leivick
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New York City, United States of America
Warsaw, Poland
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1921
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[ . . . ] After the intractable insolence shown by Süss when his sentence was pronounced, he was fettered cross-wise in the Chamber of Nobles, where he was to be confined until execution, and kept…
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Lion Feuchtwanger
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
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1925
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Jacques-Émile-Édouard Brandon
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
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1870
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1613
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Annie Leibovitz
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New York, United States of America
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1999
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And after the rabbi [Joseph Karo] went to Safed he studied in the study house of the rabbi, our master, Jacob Berab, and became a disciple of our master R. Berab, as is written in several places. The…
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David Conforte
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
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1678
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Hear, ye mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and ye strong foundations of the earth [see Micah 6:2] the lament of my beloved for his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
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Mid–16th Century