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At the present moment there are from New York City and suburbs two women students at Cornell, four at Bryn Mawr, thirteen at Smith, seventeen at Vassar (besides fifteen in preparation for it) and…
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Annie Nathan Meyer
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1888
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The whole city was talking about Regina’s wedding. I should tell you first that Regina is one of our former students. People were saying, “Yes, Regina is à la franca” (the expression means “European…
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Djamilé Douec
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1903
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When a woman has within herself as much of what is masculine as a man has within himself of what is feminine—i.e., what he lacks in Masculinity, then in their sexual union the divided parts of M and F…
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A. Vayter
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1908
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On the south it is separated from the synagogue of the Polish and German Jews by a branch of the River Amstel; on the west it faces the opulent Casa de los lázaros [hospice for the poor]; on the north…
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Abraham de Chaves, Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1675
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1718/19 and 1732/33
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Moses Frankfurt said: The holy Torah tells us that the Holy One commanded Moses to interpret the Torah very plainly (Deuteronomy 27:8), to explain it clearly in seventy languages so that all nations…
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David de Aron Uziel Cardoso, Moses Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1719/20
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Regarding the other matters, the congregation, may God preserve it, in every single community, according to its size and wealth, will contribute toward the construction of permanent houses of study…
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Moses Morawchik
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1635
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The earth made noise as did the heavens, and the doorposts are shaking at the voice crying out that it would be wrong to publish hidden and sealed materials and to break through the fence established…
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Isaac de Lattes
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Pesaro, Duchy of Urbino (Pesaro, Italy)
Date:
1558
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When macabre reality gnaws at a person’s soul, it is hard to devote oneself to psychological investigation, even of very pressing subjects. The event also seemed cut off from life, entirely academic…
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Szymon Draenger
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Kraków, General Government (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1943
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The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East was established in 1948 with the aid of three bodies: the General…
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
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1949