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This day [December 29, 1778] the British troops, consisting of about 3,500 men, including two battalions of Hessians under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the Seventy-first…
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Mordecai Sheftall
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(Savannah, United States of America)
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ca. 1778–1779
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1824 years from the Destruction. Issue no. 36
The rumor about military service for the Jews in our land comes in every European newspaper, in almost the same form as when we presented it in an…
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1893
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Behold, from the time of our settlement in the city that the Lord has chosen, which He had desired for His habitation (Psalms 132:13), we heard your voice and obeyed, for you stand in the breach…
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Students of the Jerusalem Yeshiva
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1521
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In my cottage was I one day merrily
Despite the Fortune full of treachery.
“What are you doing?” Providence asked me.
“Why are you obsessed only with this life?
You must also know of the…
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Yuāsuf Yahuādīā
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(Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
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1749
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At an age when most youngsters are struggling to unravel the secrets of mathematics and the mysteries of the Bible; at an age when first love blooms; at the tender age of sixteen, I was handed a rifle…
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1994
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As I thought, I couldn’t manage it the next day, or the day after that. I continued to struggle to write even after three days. And now, too (four days later), I didn’t think I’d…
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Moshe Flinker
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1942
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The negro movement is still a most vexatious and mischievous one, and its effects are painfully felt in every Southern household. This morning Cy came to high words with George and…
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Emma Mordecai
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Richmond, Confederate States of America
(Richmond, United States of America)
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1864–1865
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Passover preparations for a Civil War–era Union soldier included importing seven barrels of matzot and collecting weeds to substitute for the symbolic bitterness of horseradish.
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J. A. Joel
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Cleveland, United States of America
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1866
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I have written this down in connection with all that befell us during that year five thousand five hundred and sixty-nine [1809] here, in our holy community of Pressburg. Now an omen of this had…
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Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire
(Bratislava, Slovakia)
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1809
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Warsaw, August 15, 1861 [in the weekly journal Jutrzenka (Dawn), August 16, 1861]Everyone knows the reason behind the fratricidal war between secessionists and unionists in the United States. We touch…
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Daniel Neufeld
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1861