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On the south it is separated from the synagogue of the Polish and German Jews by a branch of the River Amstel; on the west it faces the opulent Casa de los lázaros [hospice for the poor]; on the north…
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Abraham de Chaves, Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1675
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Moses Frankfurt said: The holy Torah tells us that the Holy One commanded Moses to interpret the Torah very plainly (Deuteronomy 27:8), to explain it clearly in seventy languages so that all nations…
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David de Aron Uziel Cardoso, Moses Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1719/20
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Regarding the other matters, the congregation, may God preserve it, in every single community, according to its size and wealth, will contribute toward the construction of permanent houses of study…
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Moses Morawchik
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1635
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1718/19 and 1732/33
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Excerpt from the Order of the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense:
. . . It is recommended that all commanders (from platoon leader to head of staff) change their family names—be they German…
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Mordecai Nimtsa-bi
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1948
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Living in accordance with the Halakhah, demarcating a sphere of the sacred through halakhic practice—is this the ultimate end of the religious life? The answer is both yes and no. On the one hand…
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1953
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The man of letters who cares about his links with the people—who is of the opinion that there is no backbone to his literary production except when his social source is present, typified by the…
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Sami Michael
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1954
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So what do storytellers do? The ones I like operate more or less like tribal witchdoctors.
Here is a little story for you. Nine thousand six hundred and six years ago, in a…
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Amos Oz
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Huldah, Israel
Date:
1972
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Certainly, the collective will of diaspora Jews is assured neither of success nor of perennial life. It is situated in history, subject to the erosion and constraints of history, equally conditioned…
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Richard Marienstras
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1973
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The Jews of Morocco are in the limelight today. The condition of the Jews in a given country always has a certain international dimension. It is a kind of sociological test and a touchstone…
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Carlos de Nesry
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1958