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I was sent to school at Iwenez, about fifteen miles from our abode, and here I began to study Talmud. The study of the Talmud is the chief object of a learned education among our people. Riches…
Contributor:
Solomon Maimon
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1792–1793
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For the two reasons specified below, I have given myself the surname “Wasserzug”; the first reason is that when I was five or six years of age, I was playing with some young children, I believe, in a…
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Moses Wasserzug
Places:
Płock, Kingdom of Prussia
(Płock, Poland)
Frankfurt, German Confederation
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1820