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I set the Yiddish letters with my own hands.
Elle, daughter of the respected rabbi Moses from Holland.
I am not more than nine years old.
Among six children I am the only daughter.
Therefore, if you…
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Behrend Lehmann, Elle bat Moses ben Abraham Ger
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Dessau, Holy Roman Empire
(Dessau, Germany)
Date:
1696
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Jack Glogau, Joe McCarthy, Al Piantadosi
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New York, United States of America
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1914
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Avrom Golomb
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1919
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The Kinah [Lament] in Honor of Those Who Died in the Earthquake
Wail O [professional female] mourners for the suffering of our death.
The earth trembled with the earthquakes. We lost young and old…
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Eliezer Farḥi
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New York, United States of America
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1909
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God, blessed be He, knew very well that the people of Israel would be scattered among the nations and that most of them would not be able to understand the holy tongue [Hebrew]. Therefore our sages…
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Ḥayim Druker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1711
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Salon Casa Suiza
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1912
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Donat Herrnfeld
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(Germany, Germany)
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Early 20th Century
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Moses ben Elijah Gallena
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Crete, Republic of Venice
(Crete, Greece)
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1715
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All the letters in this beautiful new prayer book,
from beginning to end, I set with my own hands.
Gele, daughter of R. Moses the printer
and Frau Freide, who bore me among ten children, may they…
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Gele bat Moses ben Abraham Ger
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Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg
(Halle, Germany)
Date:
1710