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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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Question: A woman pledged, when she lay ill, to give her disukia, which is embroidered with gilt silver thread, to be made into a ceremonial object for the synagogue. The disukia is what is called in…
Contributor:
Yair Ḥayim Bacharach
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
Date:
1699
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Jacobus Houbraken
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1728
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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Early 19th Century
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Rabbi Ezekiel of Kozmir and his followers were great believers in the divine principle of joyousness.
Reb Ezekiel himself was a giant of a man, standing a full head above his Chasidic followers, and…
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Israel Joshua Singer
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1922