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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
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
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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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…
Contributor:
Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
Places:
Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (Wrocław, Poland)
Date:
1796
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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
Places:
Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia (Magdeburg, Germany)
Date:
1854