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[ . . . ] Now you know and are witness that I have composed several works on various topics. However, I did not write them in order to publish them; rather, I prepared them for my own use, to…
Contributor:
Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
Places:
Candia, Republic of Venice
(Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
First Half of the 17th Century
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I saw your figure in my dream, gazelle, flashing like lightning. It gave light to my darkened eyes, and I saw that your face was a model of the heavens. The sun and moon are set in it, the stars and…
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David Onkinerah
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
16th Century
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A poem that I, Sa‘adia Longo, wrote to an important and wealthy man from Nicopolis, who came here to Salonika to marry a woman. I was not able to participate in his celebration because I was…
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Sa‘adia Longo
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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A nighttime song of praise I have
To sing before my Lord,
And in the day His help is at my side.
All my life, my soul has longed
To see the courts
Of God, to read the Torah.
And so I come betimes…
Contributor:
Isaac Samuel Modeano
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
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Menachem Vivante (b. 1650) was a rabbi in Corfu in the eighteenth century and a member of a prominent merchant family. In this oil portrait, painted when he was eighty-five years old, he is depicted…
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Artist Unknown
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Kérkyra (Corfu), Ottoman Empire
(Corfu, Greece)
Date:
1735
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Built in the seventeenth century, the Scuola Greca is a synagogue located in the area of the ghetto in which Jews were confined in 1622, in a neighborhood still known as “Evraiki” (Jews). It is the…
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Corfu, Ottoman Empire
(Corfu, Greece)
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17th Century
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May this be written for a coming generation, that people yet to be created will praise Jah. For the signs and wonders that the most high God has performed for us, I am pleased to relate:
Know that in…
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Elijah Capsali
Places:
Candia, Republic of Venice
(Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
1538
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Question: A rabbi died, leaving all his assets in the rabbinic court’s control until his heir came to take possession, and his closest heir, who ought rightfully to inherit, is in Portugal, living as…
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Samuel de Medina
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
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In this way God sought to clarify, test, and verify the lesson which I wrote that the Torah is the essence of all entities, in two respects. First, in the previous sermon I wrote that God…
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Isaac Adarbi
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1586
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This is a prayer book for women in Ladino for the whole year, with its order of blessings at the end. And the order for washing the hands and many other laws applicable to all of the most common…
Contributor:
Meir Benveniste
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1565