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To explain the verse with which we started, we will set forth another thesis. It is a custom in Israel—and custom has the status of Torah—for preachers to travel from city to city to rebuke the people…
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Zeraḥ Eidlitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1766
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When I parted from my father and journeyed forth from his home to Brody, I joined up with friends, God-fearing men of purity; we built a bet midrash for…
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Ezekiel Landau
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1776
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Behold, I am aged and my eyes are dim and my hands heavy and shaky, and at a time when my strength, enabling me to remain standing upon my watch, is ebbing away—with the yoke of the…
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Pinchas Katzenellenbogen
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Boskovice, Holy Roman Empire
(Boskovice, Czech Republic)
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1760
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Natan Hammerschlag
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Moravia, Holy Roman Empire
(Moravia, Czech Republic)
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1691
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1697
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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Three representatives of the Prague Burial Society in the 1730s are pictured in these portraits: Jonas Jeitteles (1735–1806, the community’s official physician), Rabbi Leib Fayvel Dayan (another…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1733
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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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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
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1713
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1741