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A medieval rabbi barely escapes from a blood libel accusation at his own Seder table in this prescient nineteenth-century story by the famous German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine.
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Heinrich Heine
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1824
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1841
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Yetkhen:
And how crude he was with me! He wants to arrange with Papa to marry me! How do you like that? I’d like to meet the man who’ll force me to marry someone! No! No father can do that—I…
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Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
Places:
Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia
(Wrocław, Poland)
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1796
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Gadhi, A Paria
Maja, his Wife
Benassar, Indian Attendant
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Michael Beer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1823
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I often said to a younger girl friend: “If you are marrying without love, after all, do not talk to your husband. Please him as much as your nature can tolerate; do not argue with…
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Rahel Levin Varnhagen
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1799–1800
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“Back at home, I pulled myself together and reflected on what had happened. Given how the people had behaved when they heard the wrongheaded and hateful rabbi’s curse of excommunication, I realized…
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Ludwig Philippson
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Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia
(Magdeburg, Germany)
Date:
1854
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Berlin, 18 July 1777 Berlin, 13 Tammuz 5537
Dear Moses, may you live,
I hope that my letter will find you happy and in good spirits in Königsberg. We are all, thank G-d, well and alive, and when you…
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Fromet Guggenheim
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1777