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He married Sonechka early, out of love. He loved her passionately only for the first two years. Then he lost interest but didn’t even notice it. He wasn’t thinking about love and women as a rule. He…
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Semyon Yushkevich
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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The terrace of the large coffee house in Berlin was almost empty, save for the occasional occupied table. The season had already turned autumnal. The weather was unpredictable, and the air carried a…
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Hersh Dovid Nomberg
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925–1926
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arn-volf—parnes khoydesh (chairman of the kahal, the community council)
beyle—his wife
stere—his daughter
rabbi
first and second Dayen (judges of the bes…
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Moyshe Kulbak
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1936
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Do you deem me to be hard and evil-hearted in that I should hasten to do a match during my period of mourning? Am I to forget the love of the wife of my youth, my pure dove, whom God graciously gave…
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Akiva Eger
Places:
Märkisch Friedland, Kingdom of Prussia
(Mirosławiec, Poland)
Date:
1796
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When I parted from my father and journeyed forth from his home to Brody, I joined up with friends, God-fearing men of purity; we built a bet midrash for…
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Ezekiel Landau
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1776
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Gerardus Duyckinck I
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New York City, Kingdom of Great Britain
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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These are the conditions for a proper wife so that she will be cherished by her husband, so that he will not come to set his…
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Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1712
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It has been a long, sorrowful time that Mr. Solomon Ha-Kohen of Tangier (may God protect him) has been living here with us in Fez (may God protect it), upset angry, and bitter. We did not know what…
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David Nieto, Jacob Ibn Tsur
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Fez, Alawi Dynasty
(Fes, Morocco)
Date:
1744
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Question: The following incident occurred: The gentlemen, R. Abraham Vidal, may he rest in peace, was married to the modest lady, Estrella, sister of the fine young man, R. David Pinto, may God…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Jacob Castro
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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At a sitting of three judges we the undersigned sat as a court on the fourth day of the month of Adar 2 in the year 5376 [1616] here in Vercelli after permission was given to us from his excellency…
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Joseph Ravena
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Vercelli, Dutchy of Savoy
(Vercelli, Italy)
Date:
1617