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. . . I head up the public-health service in the program to combat epidemics and also the hospital department. Besides, I also direct the medical board here in the ghetto, where over 800 doctors are…
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Israel Milejkowski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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On the day of my abundant joy
illness suddenly overcame me
Birth pangs and rupture
overwhelmed me
I gave birth and died, like a blossom
I turned away
And the fruit of my womb was
brought with me to…
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Rebecca Henriquez da Costa
Places:
Cassipora, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Cassipora, Suriname)
Date:
1771
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On the night of Simhat Torah 5575 [1814], the Seer closeted himself in his room on the second story of his home. The one window overlooking the wide Jewish street was open; it was very near to the…
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Urye Kahan
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1867
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Mikri (“little one”) Wife of Yehuda Hamon (d. 1642)
Yesterday I was playing on the earth, in my husband’s embrace, like a tiny lamb, And an angel came and preyed upon me in his wrath…
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1642–1704
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The year 5480 of the creation of the earth and heaven, in the first month, which is the month of Nisan, the wailing of the oppressed increased. For then the hooligans began to cut off and harry the…
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Shabbetai ha-Kohen Katz
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(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1651
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Now since the episode of the earthquake has already been mentioned, in order that all those who come after us should be aware of it, I shall place on record what occurred in relation to the earthquake…
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Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
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ca. 1688
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This is the record of Adam’s line.—When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God; male and female He created them. And when they were created, He blessed them and called them Man.—When…
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Neḥama wife of Shalom Uri
Buried on Sunday, the 11th of Tevet 5337
This stone is a witness between us:
That death has climbed up into our window:
And eclipsed the…
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
16th and 17th Centuries
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Here is a man who revered The Name with love
Whose name was known For his generous spirit
He gave to charity To failing souls
From his pocket and his Until…
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
17th and 18th Centuries
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Italics indicate that the text was written in Hebrew, not Portuguese.
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The Jewish Community of Curaçao
Places:
Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Curaçao)
Date:
Early 18th Century