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This was not a very big courtyard, a longish but narrow one, like hundreds of others of this type in the thickly settled part of Jewish Warsaw. One side, the innermost one, was a two-story…
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Avrom Teytlboym
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1947
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I was born on 19 February 1758 in Nový Bydžov [in Bohemia] of well-to-do parents who destined me at birth to be a rabbi, a common practice among the Israelites then. For at that time, when all…
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Peter Beer
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Prague, Austrian Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1839
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I am not aware that the infancy of Vivian Grey was distinguished by any extraordinary incident. The solicitude of the most affectionate of mothers, and the…
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Benjamin Disraeli
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London, United Kingdom
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1826
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“Well, as you know already, the story is about Esterka, the daughter of the Jew to whom this house belongs. She was ten years old when he came here, and tall of her age, with black hair and large blue…
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Karl Emil Franzos
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Stuttgart, German Empire
(Stuttgart, Germany)
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1873
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Chapter 1The explosion was on the first day of the Passover vacation.The minimarket across from our house was already closed when suddenly a deafening bolt of thunder could be heard, rolling down the…
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Daniella Carmi
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
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A Meeting at the StationI stood outside the grocery, holding a shopping bag in one hand, and Phat’hi’s strange “letter” in the other. I looked at the drawings of the car, the clock, and the sign over…
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Emuna Elon
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Bet El, West Bank
Date:
1988
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Eric A. Kimmel
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Portland, United States of America
Date:
1989
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Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who created His world for the purpose of mankind, and, from all the different sorts of men, chose for Himself a nation as a special treasure—namely…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1542
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I admit my guilt that about a year ago I was in the home of Juan Estevan when his daughter Inés said to me: “Come here, cousin, would you like to see your mother who is long deceased? and to save your…
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Beatriz de Villanueva of Herrera
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Herrera del Duque, Spanish Empire
(Herrera del Duque, Spain)
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1500/1501
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I admit my guilt . . . in that I was told of a maiden who was [there] the daughter of Juan Estevan who had ascended to heaven and was approached there by an angel, and how she had told of the many…
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Isabel Rodríguez of Agudo
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Herrera del Duque, Spanish Empire
(Herrera del Duque, Spain)
Date:
1501