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To Hoshaiah. Your welfare (may DN seek after at all times).
Now, look after the children by yourself until Ahutab comes. Do not entrust them to others.
If their bread is ground, knead for them 1 qab,…
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ca. 475 BCE
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[ . . . ] In the early autumn of 1918 we entered a new circle of Bolshevik hell, the period of mass Red Terror. The murder of Uritskii and…
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Simon Dubnov
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Riga, Latvia
Date:
1934–1935
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Miriam Steinberg of Highland Park, Illinois, would never think of making her weekly challah without first separating some dough, reciting a blessing over it, and then burning it in the oven, in…
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Joan Nathan
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2004
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Sephardic cooking in Salonica was based, until the Greek occupation of 1912, on sesame seed oil, which in the Judeo-Spanish dialect was called by the name of azeite de giungili…
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Michael Molho
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1940
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To Elyashib: And now, give to the Kittim 1 bath and 3 hin of wine and write the date. And from the surplus of the best flour you shall load 1 kor (?) to make bread for them. From the wine of the…
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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
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Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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Greetings, Islah.
Now, I shall dispatch legumes tomorrow. Meet the boat tomorrow on Sabbath. Lest, if they get lost, by the life of YHH, I swear that I will take your life. Do not rely on Meshullemeth…
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ca. 475 BCE
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Bread, bread. The abundance of it dazzles your eyes. In the windows, on the stalls, in hands, in baskets. I won’t be able to hold out if I can’t grab a bite or bread-stuff. “Grab? You don’t look…
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Leyb Goldin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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The entire city is talking about the tumult, the uproar in the Jewish Quarter that began after the price of meat started to rise.
The prices for meat not only went up in the Jewish Quarter. The Trusts…
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The Forward
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1902
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(Obverse) To Nahum, [and] now: go to the house of Elyashib son of Ishiyahu and you shall take from there 1 jar of oil and send to Ziph quickly, and seal it with your seal.
(Reverse) On the 24th of the…
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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
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Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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I spent five years at “Lechem Erez” in Herzliya. During those years, we created at “Lechem Erez” a simple cuisine inclined to use herbs and dwarf leaves, balady vegetables and local fruits, fresh meat…
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Erez Komarovsky
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2000