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When my father made his last trip to the Antilles, Salomón, a cousin of his whom he had loved since childhood, had just lost his wife. At a very young age, they had come together to South America…
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Jorge Isaacs
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Bogotá, United States of Colombia
(Bogotá, Colombia)
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1867
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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
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1867
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Kingston, Kingdom of Great Britain
(Kingston, Jamaica)
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1722
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The gravestone of Judah Loew (1520–1609; known as the Maharal) and his wife, Pearl (1528–1610), is located in the Old Jewish Cemetery of the Jewish quarter in Prague. A prominent scholar and kabbalist…
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1609 and 1640
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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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Solomon Norzi
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1527
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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire
(Fürth, Germany)
Date:
1705
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My son, if you accept my words
And treasure up my commandments;
If you make your ear attentive to wisdom
And your mind open to discernment;
If you call to understanding
And cry aloud to…
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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)
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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