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Joseph Karo, Moses Isserles
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1721/23
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Atzlan ben Abraham al-Karaji
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18th Century
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Samuel Benavente
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1699
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And now, you, my brethren, my people of holy communities in all the places you live, for several years I have been unable to send you reproaches and words of ethics and righteousness. . . . And since…
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Samuel ha-Levi Barazani
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Barazan, Ottoman Empire
(Barazan, Iran)
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17th Century
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One of the most important things that the government has introduced in Russia to improve education among Jews is the decree that each community must choose a…
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Berish Rozenblum, Menashe Margolis
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1864
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The words of a pure woman “more precious than rubies”
whose wish is to attend to studies,
and her name is the gentle Dinah:
She seeks counsel from the wise
for she fears lest her honor may everywhere…
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Samuel Archevolti
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1553
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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)
Date:
1521
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Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the roof; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick .…
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Abraham Bukrat
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Early 16th Century
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The behavior of the Jews in most places generally follows the behavior of the [local] Christians—(Sefer ḥasidim [Book of the Pious, 13th century] § 1106)
The present volume is a continuation…
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Moritz Güdemann
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Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1880
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The Dreyfus trial transformed me into a Zionist. Not the current one in Rennes, but the original one in Paris that I witnessed in 1894. I was living in Paris then as a journalist and attended the…
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Theodor Herzl
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1899