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Printed birth amulet. The decorative borders are composed of printers’ devices and decorations that were used by printers in Fürth (Bavaria), so it is assumed that this amulet was printed in that city…
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Artist Unknown
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire
(Fürth, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
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Abraham Chajkes was famous throughout the town, nay, even throughout the entire district, as a decent, “solid,” wealthy merchant. [ . . . ]
He gave his growing children the best education according to…
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Wilhelm Feldman
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Kraków, Russian Empire
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1889
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Avrom Golomb
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1919
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Charlotte Salomon
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1941–1943
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A peasant was transporting a large cart of hay. He had to pass through a low gateway, but the cart couldn’t pass under it. People advised the peasant to wear glasses with magnifying lenses, so that…
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S. Beilin
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
Second half of the 19th century
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Date:
1709
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[May] your mornings [be] blessed,
[May] your life [be] long,
[May] your enemies [be] shrouded, dead,
[May] your [hot] breakfasts [be] poured, cooled.
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The Jews of Zakho, Kurdistan
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Zakho, Ottoman Empire
(Zakho, Iraq)
Date:
17th Century
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1750
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The first reports about Hans date to the time when he wasn’t yet three years old. At that time, he demonstrated—in various ways of talking and asking—a particularly vivid interest in that part of the…
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Sigmund Freud
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1909