Showing Results 1 - 10 of 22
Public Access
Text
Moved by the fraternal love nourished in my…
Contributor:
Moses Pereyra de Paiva
Places:
Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin (Ernakulam, India)
Date:
1687
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Eliah ben Michael Judah Leon
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1666
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
A major issue within the internal politics of the Russian government concerns the Russification of populations in our remote regions who follow different religions and are of other ethnic backgrounds…
Contributor:
Ilya Orshanski
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1877
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Among the wrestlers competing in the current tournament in the Panorama [Building] on Karowa Street, fighting for the 1912 Polish Championship, is a Jew called Vildman.
He has become quite famous, in…
Contributor:
Menachem Kipnis
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1912
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in…
Contributor:
Menaḥem Man Amelander
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1743
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I had been living in tranquility in my home, refreshed in my sanctuary, my palace, in the holy congregation of Prague for some twenty-eight years after they had chosen me from the assembly to be a…
Contributor:
Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1645
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
This is a short essay on the debate concerning practical halakhic issues that took place between the sages of Safed and those of Jerusalem wherein the sages of Safed saw fit to implement the ruling…
Contributor:
Levi Ibn Ḥabib
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1538
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Blessed are you to God . . . You the holy congregation of ‘Akron, may your Rock and Creator preserve you; inform us about your concerns and tell us about your happenings, for I and the Minister, the…
Contributor:
Unknown
Places:
Akron, Ottoman Empire (Akre, Iraq)
Date:
17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I stayed a long time in Hanau because of the heavy burden laid upon me from teaching youth. Although this is a labor performed for the sake of Heaven, it is nonetheless the case that whoever pleases…
Contributor:
Judah Mehler Reutlinger
Places:
Bingen, Holy Roman Empire (Bingen am Rhein, Germany)
Date:
1651
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
You, Jerusalem, I can never forget;
Rather, I remember you in my every joy,
With tears in my eyes, which never cease.
I am moved by grief and great sadness,
Not by mockery, nor happiness:
Solely to…
Contributor:
Unknown
Places:
Ancona, Papal States (Ancona, Italy)
Date:
1556/7