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Why is my back loaded with fine flour, while in my mouth there is no bread at all, but only straw? I drink well-water, though I carry wine. And the stick goes on fracturing my skull!
I live in rubble…
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Samuel Archevolti
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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With devout accents, the beautiful Hebrew woman
Implored the exalted choirs for their grace,
Indeed, midst heavenly stars, in sacred fires,
She holds supreme minds happily in her grip:
Upon the sound…
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Sarra Copia Sullam
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1623
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Moses ben Gershon Parenzo
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1629
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Ioannes Aloysius Foppa de Rota
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1692
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Blasio Ugolino, Giovanni Cattini
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1744
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Unknown
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Rovere, Republic of Venice
(Roverè Veronese, Italy)
Date:
1585–1590
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And after the rabbi [Joseph Karo] went to Safed he studied in the study house of the rabbi, our master, Jacob Berab, and became a disciple of our master R. Berab, as is written in several places. The…
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David Conforte
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1678
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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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In a dream, in a night vision, while [I was] asleep upon [my] bed during my imprisonment, a voice called in my ears. The voice was the voice of Jacob, like the voice of my father, may his memory be…
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Abraham Yagel
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1578
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We, the undersigned, came in to visit the honorable lady Rosa Romanina, widow of R. Moses Guastalla of blessed memory, a resident of Rivarolo, and found her sick, lying on her bed, but her words and…
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Rosa Romanina
Places:
Verona, Republic of Venice
(Verona, Italy)
Date:
1642