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Lelio Della Torre
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Padua, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
(Padova, Italy)
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1829
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Thus saith the humble Jacob ben Chajim ben Isaac Ibn Adonijah: “He entereth in peace, where the righteous rest upon their couches, who walked in uprightness.”
Praised be the Creator, who exists and…
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Jacob Ibn Adoniyahu
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1525
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Thus said the editor [megihah], who bursts forth [megi’aḥ] in prostration from his place, and offers his greeting of peace with a bow and while kneeling. His labor is for all those who are wise of…
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Seligman Ulma
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Hanau, Holy Roman Empire
(Hanau, Germany)
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1610
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Recognizing, that any national political institution created on the basis of national autonomy in all its forms, is of value only to the extent that it answers a number of definite necessities—needs…
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The Bund
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1905
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Are we always and in all circumstances united with our surroundings, so that only the synagogue, rather than society, attests to separation?
Do not believe that in such unity and cooperation I mean…
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Abraham Wertheim
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1893
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One may consider this work a sort of memorial book that captures the history of the Jews and Judaism in our century. It does not narrate stories but reports; it presents personages about whom I was…
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Moritz Lazarus
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1887
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Persecution because of a person’s religious observance is reprehensible, even despicable, though still somewhat understandable. What is understandable—I am not saying: justifiable—is that zealots who…
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Mozes Henriquez Pimentel
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1891
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Indeed, woman is only just awakened to the realization of her true part and function in the economy of the universe, she has only begun to feel her real power and to exert it for the progress of her…
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Sadie American
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Chicago, United States of America
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1893
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From the day that God confused all the languages of the land [see Genesis 11:9], through the bitter and rapid exile of the expulsion from Spain, since then all good things have ended for us; our glory…
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Abraham Ibn Ya‘ish
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1505/6
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The peaceable and faithful in Israel (2 Samuel 20:19), the heads of the exile of Ariel, the same are the mighty men of old, the men of renown (Genesis 6:4), wise men of understanding [see Deuteronomy…
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Jacob ben Naphtali ha-Kohen
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1558