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Resolved, by the French deputies professing the religion of Moses, that the following Declaration shall precede the answers returned to the questions proposed by the Commissioners of His…
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Grand Sanhedrin (France)
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Paris, French Empire
(Paris, France)
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1807
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[ . . . ] 2. When you stroll along the riverbank, you find an entire plain filled with reeds and bulrushes, all of which are standing erect, one adjacent to the other, and none of them…
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Menachem Mendel Lefin
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Satanów, Russian Empire
(Sataniv, Ukraine)
Date:
1808
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“Well, as you know already, the story is about Esterka, the daughter of the Jew to whom this house belongs. She was ten years old when he came here, and tall of her age, with black hair and large blue…
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Karl Emil Franzos
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Stuttgart, German Empire
(Stuttgart, Germany)
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1873
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Since the theme of the Noachide commandments has arisen for consideration, I shall mention here what I presented before the assembly of rabbis in the great city [Paris] in the year 5567 [1807], and it…
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Aaron Worms of Metz
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Metz, Kingdom of France
(Metz, France)
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1831
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I had recently published my work Ḥeker davar, and for other reasons, I was compelled to seek out the city of my birth, Vilna, and…
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Abraham Uri Kovner
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1868
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In the supplement of Sürgöny, a certain…
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Löw Schwab
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Pest, Austrian Empire
(Pest, Hungary)
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1840
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We have already offered a glimpse, in our program, into the nature of this publication. Yet the desire to open our heart, especially to those benevolent people who have looked favorably upon…
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Giuseppe Levi and Esdra Pontremoli
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Vercelli, Kingdom of Sardinia
(Vercelli, Italy)
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1853
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But was it surprising, when in the midst of such social circumstances or actually disarray, an intellectual sociability was offered, despite the prejudices that prevailed against the Jews at that time…
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Henriette de Lemos Herz
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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We will admit, that, during the ages of superstition and darkness, silence was often imposed upon us by the terrors of…
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Isaac Leeser
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Philadelphia, United States of America
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1839
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But you, West Slavic Jews, you who are so proud of your intelligence and education, you who are so proud of the sciences that you tend like exotic plants [ . . . ] I ask whether you are so…
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David Kuh
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Budapest, Austrian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1844