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This 1934 illustration of the Passover story of the four sons features a caricature of the “wicked” son dressed as Hitler.
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Arthur Szyk
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Lodz, Second Polish Republic
(Łódź, Poland)
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1934
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We resist the penetration of capitalism and mercantilism into Palestine. How can we at this moment in history reconcile that with our conscience? Dare we burden this Zionist…
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Samuel Hugo Bergmann
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1919
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“It was my fault, Sammy. I aggravate you when you’re tired,” she said, sitting up and drawing his head to her. “I shouldn’t even have mentioned Ev. We ought to go to your family this year. It’s only…
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Meyer Levin
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1937
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On the nights before Passover, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur, my mother would send me to the butcher with some birds to be slaughtered according to ritual so the meat would be kosher—that is, clean…
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Lázaro Liacho
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1943
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The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, on the first new moon of the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, saying: Let the Israelite people offer the passover…
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A medieval rabbi barely escapes from a blood libel accusation at his own Seder table in this prescient nineteenth-century story by the famous German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine.
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Heinrich Heine
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1824
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Dear Mo:
I se no way for you to keep Pesah at William Hanry thear fore you had batter come over hear the Sunday before than you neat not due any thing to your house to git the hamez out of your house…
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Aaron Hart
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Trois-Rivières, Kingdom of Great Britain
(Trois-Rivières, Canada)
Date:
1790
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Mattetiah Spagnolo
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Candia, Republic of Venice
(Heraklion, Greece)
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1583
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To Hoshaiah. Your welfare (may DN seek after at all times).
Now, look after the children by yourself until Ahutab comes. Do not entrust them to others.
If their bread is ground, knead for them 1 qab,…
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Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt
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ca. 475 BCE