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I request my husband to dispose as follows:
I would wish to be able to give my family in Berlin the capital of 10,000 gulden held for me by my husband . . . my pearls, as my favorite pieces of…
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Fanny von Arnstein
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1793
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Azrikam grew in his father’s house like a thorn, becoming uglier as he grew. Tamar, however, grew more beautiful day by day. The contrast between these two children was not only noticeable in their…
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Abraham Mapu
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1853
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One day I came back from my synagogue and sat down in my room to take breakfast—a bowl of milk and some bread, instead of the compote juice and butter cake that had been my customary…
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Mordechai Aaron Gintsburg
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1863
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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
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1705
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Artist Unknown
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17th Century
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For Joseph Kohen Balarin of blessed memory, to his brother, in Prague.
Wisdom brings strength to the wise, dear brother from a city of strength, elevated leader and rabbi, my brother and head, may…
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Leone Modena
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1615
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Meanwhile Joy was telling me things about her life that I’d never known as a single-minded kid searching the neighborhood for a grape to burst—Joy was tossing into this agitated pot of memory called…
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Philip Roth
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1997
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My parents had been married for five years when I was born, the second child after my sister, and, as far back as I can remember, I never heard them quarreling. It is possible that they…
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Sasson Somekh
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2003
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Most of the way by tram till outside the city. Endless streets and alleys. But now the last stops come. Here’s the remise, the resting place of these tram cars, where they look like animals in…
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Gershom Shofman
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Vienna, First Austrian Republic
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1920
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The other day I met a Jew from Shklov on Arbat Street, directly opposite the entrance to the Vakhtangov Theater, and he told me about the moon he knew in Shklov, which urged him to Moscow. The Jew was…
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Shmuel Godiner
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1928