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[T]he Iewish Nation, though scattered through the whole World, are not therefore a despisable people, but as a Plant worthy to be planted in the whole world, received into Populous Cities: who aught…
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Menasseh Ben Israel, Shalom Italia
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London, Kingdom of England (London, United Kingdom)
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1655
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Few events of a similar kind ever attracted the attention of the public, in such a degree, as the contests between Mr. Humphreys and myself. The long correspondence which passed between us previous to…
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Daniel Mendoza
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London, United Kingdom
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1816
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My friends desired me to record the discussions I have had with those who reject the authority of the Oral Law; and, in compliance with their desire, I have gathered all that I found bearing on that…
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James McArdell, David Esteves, Thomas Ilive, David Nieto
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1714
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Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people’s minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and…
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Claudia Roden
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Hampstead, United Kingdom
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1996
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Vera [Agitated, coming nearer]:Irony, Mr. Quixano? Please, please, do not imagine there is any irony in my congratulations.David:The irony is in all the congratulations. How can I endure them when I…
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Israel Zangwill
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1908
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Since the methods of conducting surgical procedures have, for many years, been perfected to the highest degree in England and we do not have any treatise on the subject written in our…
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Samuel Benavente, Jacob de Castro Sarmento
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1744
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To Freud, all forms of religious observance were foolish and superstitious. His wife Martha, on the other hand, took religion much more seriously, as her grandfather had been a prominent rabbi in…
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Ralph Steadman
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Kent, United Kingdom
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1979
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And now for my style. I must frankly confess that I have invented a new one. I am conscious of the hazard of such innovation, but I have not adopted my system without long meditation, and a…
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Benjamin Disraeli
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London, United Kingdom
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1833