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We, the poor of Israel, inhabitants of the city of Izmir, may God protect it, slaves of our lord and king, Sultan Abdülmecid, may his name be praised and long live his reign, [are] oppressed and…
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Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1847
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[By “war”] I mean concrete war—rather than a war of words or an incomplete war of demonstrations. I am not in denial regarding the existence of these words or those demonstrations, and neither do I…
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Murād Faraj
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1912
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To our fruit of holiness enwrapped in praise, our man of deeds rich in accomplishment, the exalted prince and honored rabbi. May your light shine like the rising sun, blossom like the flowers! May an…
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Nathan of Gaza
Places:
Gaza, Ottoman Empire
(Gaza, Palestine)
Date:
1666
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My brothers, my children, and my friends know this: I understood with great clarity that the True One, whom I alone have known for many generations and for whom I have strived so much, wants me to…
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David de Castro Tartas, Shabbetai Tzvi
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1666
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[Sabbatai’s] illumination grew steadily more intense up to the thirteenth day of the month of Adar [23 February]. On that day his brother came for a stay, along with four of Vani Effendi’s men.…
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Jacob Najara
Places:
Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1671
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This satirical political cartoon, printed in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the Ladino socialist periodical El Pueblo, mocks Theodor Herzl’s 1902 visit to Istanbul, while also indicating the brutal policies of…
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Artist Unknown
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Sofia, Ottoman Empire
(Bulgaria, Bulgaria)
Date:
1902
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The rich and honorable Moshe haCohen, resident of the city Castoria may God protect it, says as follows: he has been given a bad wife, and that during their marital life…
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Johannes Alexander Böner, Aaron ha-Kohen Peraḥia
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1701
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The city modernizes more and more. One hardly sees those baggy, dark, unsightly breeches of old, the ones that Muslims, Christians, and poor Jews still wore in the middle of the last century. Until…
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Joseph Nehama
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1914
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We have not had in Mosul—unlike our unfortunate coreligionists in Baghdad much to suffer from the fanatic and reactionary movement among the Muslims in recent days. The delegates of the Committee of…
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Maurice Sidi
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Mosul, Ottoman Empire
(Mosul, Iraq)
Date:
1908
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Dear readers! I am giving you a rare and precious treasure, which has hitherto been lying in a library for three hundred years. Jews have always been thinking and talking about this treasure…
Contributor:
Yudl Rosenberg
Places:
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909