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The author had a tradition from his ancestors, also based on a book of his genealogy that was lost in all the upheavals of the expulsion and the persecutions, that this holy and lofty family, whose…
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Barukh Uziel Hazaketto
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1550
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The slaughter that occurred there, in Lisbon:
I was out of the city, and when I returned after several days they told me that the two [events, namely, the massacre within Lisbon and in the surrounding…
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Solomon Ibn Verga
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1520
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There was a man in Castile called Americo. He had a large ship, in which he placed a great number of supplies, as much as his soul desired, and he also resolved in his heart to amass as much booty as…
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Joseph ha-Kohen
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Sabbioneta, Republic of Venice (Sabbioneta, Italy)
Date:
1554
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Granada was under control of the Ishmaelites for seven hundred years, until Ferdinand and Isabel, the monarchs of Spain, besieged it, for many days, and captured the whole region of that kingdom in…
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Joseph ha-Kohen
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Sabbioneta, Republic of Venice (Sabbioneta, Italy)
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ca. 1575
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And the work was finished on the eve of Sabbath, in
the month of Shebat, in the year 307, in the great
city of Venice which is under the rule of
the Signoria, may God increase their
glory, and in the…
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Cornelio Adelkind
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1547
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Judaism’s approach to history is shaped by the fact that unlike other religions, it locates perfection not at the beginning but at the end of history. This, surely, is the…
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Elijah Benamozegh
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Livorno, Kingdom of Italy (Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1863