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Artist Unknown
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Bursa, Ottoman Empire
(Bursa, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1800
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In the month of Tevet of the same year I entered that school and began studying Greek with tremendous dedication. I repented of all my previous actions and habits, just as I had promised my father (of…
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Abraham Rosanes
Places:
Ruse, Ottoman Empire
(Ruse, Bulgaria)
Date:
1864
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We, the poor of Israel, inhabitants of the city of Izmir, may God protect it, slaves of our lord and king, Sultan Abdülmecid, may his name be praised and long live his reign, [are] oppressed and…
Contributor:
Anonymous
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1847
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This watercolor from the Gennadius Library’s Costume Album collection, in Athens, depicts two Jewish women—a widow (left) and a married woman (right)—in the colorful traditional attire of…
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Artist Unknown
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1574
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We want to make ourselves strong for our people and the cities of our God, and to raise the banner of Torah which had been thrown to the ground and trodden down.
Behold, this people of God is a…
Contributor:
Jacob Berab
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1538
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Did you go to a meldar as a child? Have any of you been so lucky and blessed? I am sure that, seeing these two questions, you will all object that you had no idea what a meldar was and that you went…
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Alexander Benghiat
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1920
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Artist Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1858–1859
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This shadai’a (dedicatory plaque) from the Romaniote community in Ioannina, Greece, is made of repoussé silver with an engraved Hebrew inscription. The central inscription is a rhymed text dedicated…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Ioannina, Ottoman Empire
(Ioannina, Greece)
Date:
1728
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1546
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That year my wife, Hannah, became extremely ill and one Sabbath she was in a coma and close to death. At night, at the conclusion of the Sabbath, we approached her to witness the departure of the…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century