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Sultan Mehmed began his reign in the year 856, according to their count [1452 CE]. The king ordered the building of sailing ships on the top of the…
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Joseph Sambari
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1673
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In the age of every ruler, old and new, time and again some affliction befell us. But this one was…
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Bābāī ibn Lutf
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Kashan, Safavid Empire (Kashan, Iran)
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First Half of the 17th Century
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There was once a little city with few Jewish inhabitants, roughly twenty households, the name [of the city] being Ragusa; and it was self-governing. Now it transpired that in the year 5383 [1622], on…
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Aaron ben David ha-Kohen
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Ragusa, Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
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ca. 1625
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Although the troubles worsened and the city of Padua was in a state of turmoil [see Esther 3:15], there remained hope and divine mercy for the Jews, as not one person in the ghetto was dead or ill…
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Abraham Catalano
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
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1631
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Whoever reads it, his heart laughs.
About the invasion of the Swedes
Therefore you should buy [this booklet] / And don’t run away from it.
Thus you will see / What signs and wonders took place in…
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Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1649
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The Oppressor Chmiel, may his name be blotted out, heard that many Jews had gathered in the holy community of Nemirow, and that they had a great deal of…
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Nathan Hannover
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1653
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The illustrious gentlemen, ḥakham R. Mosseh Ury ha-Levi (of blessed memory) and his son, R. Aaron Ury ha-Levi, my father and master: both were residents of Emden, in the province of Oost-Friesland…
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Adolf van der Laan, Uri ha-Levi
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1711
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In the year 5473 [1713] since the creation of, the world, from the moment it began the plague fell upon us because of our many sins. In the community we still had no one ill nor bad air in the country…
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Moses Eisenstadt
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1713
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1741
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[1742] In the week when we read the portion Toledoth of the Pentateuch a proclamation was issued by the…
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Abraham Ḥayim Braatbard
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1742–1745