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We are limiting ourselves here to reworking the materials about causes of death and illnesses among Jews. The causes have in recent years been shown to the public in the official…
Contributor:
Israel Koralnik
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928
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We, the screamers, have been at it now for about ten years. We started on the night when the epileptic van der Lubbe set fire to the German Parliament; we said that if you don’t quench those flames at…
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Arthur Koestler
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1944
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[To the tune of “Adir ayom ve-nora.”]
Come, dear friends, let us cry and lament
The horrible things that have happened in these times.
In the year that Messiah was expected amid tribulation [1648],…
Contributor:
Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
Places:
Amsterdam, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
Date:
1648
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Now we shall begin to describe the confrontation of the King of Sweden with the King of Poland. First, the aforementioned King of Sweden came to the holy community of Posen [Poznań], a major Jewish…
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Samuel Feibush
Places:
Venice, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
Date:
1655
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What shall the passive and lackluster do
if the pious and accomplished are swiftly felled by angels?
Quake, nations, and rich and poor fear ye the judgment day.
When the…
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1554–1705
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This work, which I here make public, answers a scholarly need that became evident to me twenty-five years ago, when I was still a young student writing my first book, The Beginning…
Contributor:
Yitshak (Ignacy) Schiper
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1930
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Whoever reads it, his heart laughs.
About the invasion of the Swedes
Therefore you should buy [this booklet] / And don’t run away from it.
Thus you will see / What signs and wonders took place in…
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Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1649
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The Oppressor Chmiel, may his name be blotted out, heard that many Jews had gathered in the holy community of Nemirow, and that they had a great deal of…
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Nathan Hannover
Places:
Venice, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
Date:
1653
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In the year 5473 [1713] since the creation of, the world, from the moment it began the plague fell upon us because of our many sins. In the community we still had no one ill nor bad air in the country…
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Moses Eisenstadt
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1713
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Come, O heart, and proclaim a flood upon the world; no…
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Bābāī ibn Farhād
Places:
Kashan, Afsharid Dynasty
(Kashan, Iran)
Date:
Mid– to Late 18th Century