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And I have heard an amazing reason from an old man as to why music was absent from that feast [of King Ahasuerus], and I present it here, with a great number of additions to what I heard. These will…
Contributor:
Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz
Places:
Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
16th Century
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Cast [in this passage]
Abraham Levi:Rich merchant
Aneta:Abraham Levi’s wife
Max, Yosef, and Aron:Abraham and Aneta Levi’s sons
Frida and Klerchen:Abraham and Aneta Levi’s daughters
Shmuel Natan:Zioni…
Contributor:
Mordechai Monassowitz, Mordechai Monassowitz
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Date:
1902
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After these things, Ahmed Shaitan desired of the Jews a hundred and fifty thousand great gold pieces, and he also said, If ye bring them not quickly, I shall kill you with the sword. And when the Jews…
Contributor:
Unknown
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
ca. 1524