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Contributor:
Moses Ganbash
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1838–1839
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Act II, Scene 3
Jezebel [Goes up to meet Ahab]:You have seen a conversion yourself? Do tell me!
Ahab [Bewildered]:Oh Jezebel! I am dying! I cannot breathe!
[Sinks into a chair.]
What is this? Am I…
Contributor:
Avraam Papo
Places:
Ottoman Empire (Bulgaria, Bulgaria)
Date:
1898
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[Fabres alone]
Fabres [Standing, reading the newspaper La Libre parole whose title appears in such big letters that it can be seen by the audience]:“Our information was confirmed in…
Contributor:
Jacques Loria
Places:
Tatar-Bazardjik, Ottoman Empire (Pazardzhik, Bulgaria)
Date:
1903
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I have seen other stars
with a tail before,
but the people were frightened
by this awesome torch.
As an omen of war
it does sadden my heart.
Let us turn to our God,
let us try to please Him.
Contributor:
Yakob Yoná
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1910
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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…
Contributor:
Joseph Nehama
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1913
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If there is one branch of study that is entirely neglected in our schools it is the history of our forefathers from the time of their dispersion across the globe until the present. . . . [True,] our…
Contributor:
Mercado Joseph Covo
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1892
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A. O my sisters! O my daughters! O women, my people and pride! Hear my words, understand my musings, consider my way, for I am your brother. I have gathered for you beautiful words, chosen from the…
Contributor:
Ben Ish Ḥai
Places:
Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1979
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Contributor:
Maurice Joseph Cattaui, Maurice Joseph Cattaui
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1905
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This satirical political cartoon, printed in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the Ladino socialist periodical El Pueblo, mocks Theodor Herzl’s 1902 visit to Istanbul, while also indicating the brutal policies of…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Ottoman Empire (Bulgaria, Bulgaria)
Date:
1902
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911
Dear Mrs. N.,
I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…
Contributor:
Bertha Pappenheim
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1911