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During the days of Shavuot, quite a number of householders, accompanied by their sons, their wives and their infant children, would rise early each morning and walk outside the city, and outside the…
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The Jewish Community of Corfu
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Corfu, Republic of Venice
(Corfu, Greece)
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ca. 1700
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We are therefore obliged to examine the words of the living God, which are expressed through the wonderful wise men who have received the truth [i.e., kabbalists], the foundation of the Torah. The…
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Aernout Naghtegaal, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1636
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At her meeting with the associate dean, Edith Margareten asked the administrator, a woman in her mid-40s, about the climate for Jews at Notre Dame. “Oh, it’s fine,” she said. “I’m Methodist myself.”
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Robin Hemley
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1996
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Do you know what was being discussed today on the radio talk show where everyone can call in and take part in the conversation? We, all of us, are crazy, a certain professor, a psychiatrist, said. So…
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Eva Deutsch, Brigitte Schwaiger
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Vienna, Austria
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1984
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This is the moment Francisco has been waiting for. Day after day and week after week he has imagined the court’s questions, turned them over in his mind, and minutely rehearsed his answers. Now fear…
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Marcos Aguinis
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Córdoba, Argentina
Date:
1991
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The belated adoption of the first law of Jewish emancipation has led to the assumption that it had no practical value. True as this statement may be technically, it nevertheless needs further…
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George Barany
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Denver, United States of America
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1974
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Anton Raphael Mengs
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Madrid, Spanish Empire
(Madrid, Spain)
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1767
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Anton Raphael Mengs
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Madrid, Spanish Empire
(Madrid, Spain)
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1770
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Aleksander Lesser
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1861
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
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ca. 1790