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Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm
that draws to you life’s greatest joys.
Rounded like a bow, that brow,
or like a moon in half eclipse.
Your eye, beside it, is a pool,
all sparkle, like a…
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Joseph Tsarfati
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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Various eggplant recipes have been passed down to us.
the first is one inherited from the late Morena:
you cut it into slices and throw them into the main dish
for that is how she was taught her by…
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Unknown
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16th Century
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The day my heart was troubled doubly,
By your love, O crown unto my head,
Delight and joy were mine beside the sheepfolds,
When your beauteous traits were joined to me.
Lovely are your dancing…
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Solomon de Oliveyra
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
17th Century
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Beautiful mistress mine,
upon whose snow at dawn
the rose is forming
on fields of mother of pearl.
Pure and lovely lily,
who amid coral protects itself
from the pure crystals
that the…
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Antonio Enríquez Gómez
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17th Century
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Chapter XIII. Judaism
The explanation is simple. People love in others the qualities they would like to have but do not actually have in any great degree; so also we hate in others only what we do not…
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Otto Weininger
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Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1903
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Meanwhile, the beautiful Saâda wandered the streets of Blidah . . . She continued straight ahead, without purpose or thought.
She went . . . She found Blida banal with its one-story European…
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Elissa Rhaïs
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1919
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On the Lord’s hills, white with lustrous light,
Far from rich palaces reeking of wine,
Drunk on the night and sidereal sadness,
The King dreams in self-imposed exile.
Below, mid the wheat, the…
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Ephraïm Mikhaël
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1887
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My lovely lady is like flights of scent—
the other day she opened like a flower—
She is beautiful as angels in the spring—
the other night her sun warmed my heart—
My lady’s lips are the single…
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Gustave Kahn
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Lorraine, French Republic
(Lorraine, France)
Date:
1897
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Rosa:Oh, is that you, my friend . . . I was beginning to wonder why I haven’t seen you for two days; I was about to accuse you . . . I was inclined to think that you didn’t want to see…
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Maria Lerner
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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In our great city of New York, no practical question concerning the welfare of Judaism is of more vital importance than that of mission-work among the Jews. [ . . . ] The great every-day phrase, “we…
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Rebekah Kohut
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1893