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A poem that I, Sa‘adia Longo, wrote to an important and wealthy man from Nicopolis, who came here to Salonika to marry a woman. I was not able to participate in his celebration because I was…
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Sa‘adia Longo
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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According to the Torah, a man can acquire a woman in one of three ways:
Through a document, through silver, or through intercourse. God is the one that gives a prudent wife.
In truth, one must begin…
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Caspar Birckenholtz, Judah Alkaletz
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Algiers, Ottoman Empire
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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Artist Unknown
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Oran, French Algeria
(Oran, Algeria)
Date:
1847
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This glimpse into an eighteenth-century German Jewish marriage ceremony offers an opportunity to consider how gender roles have changed for this vital ritual.
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Artist Unknown
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Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
Date:
1748
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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
Places:
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
Date:
1928
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It is often said that among the Gentiles there are men of noble lineage whose features and outward appearance show that nothing but the purest and most refined aristocratic blood…
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Yehudah Burla
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1933
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Reb Menashe Dorogofsky
what beautiful girls you have!
the brunette enchants me,
also, the red-head.
The trampled plants of our century
spring again from their feet
the curve of the Hebrew sky
which…
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César Tiempo
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933
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On rare occasions Aunt Joya di Pinso would come over, and whenever she came, the house would be full of good spirits. The minute she set foot on our threshold, pausing for a moment, as was…
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Yehudah Burla
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949
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Michael and I arranged to meet that same evening in Cafe Atara in Ben Yehuda Street. Outside an absolute storm was raging, beating down furiously on the stone walls of Jerusalem.
Austerity regulations…
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Amos Oz
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1972