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Family Chronicle
When I was born, I was given the name Manuel, after my grandfather, Manuel Alvares Pinto, as was said earlier. For this reason and because I was my father’s eldest son, my grandfather always had me…
The Book of Memories
Sefer ha-zikhronot
This anonymous 17th-century autobiographical account details a young man's journey through Bohemia and Moravia.
Peraḥ Levanon (Flower of Lebanon)
I will print this book in ink as a remembrance and a sign, a memorial for my dear children. For now I will reveal their strength with words, as a reminder for them and their children…
A Memoir of Hardship and Hope
A Jewish woman’s story of work, family, faith, and upheaval, revealing daily resilience amid crisis, childbirth, labor, and communal struggle.
Letter to Ludovico Antonio Muratori
To satisfy your doubt concerning my signature, I have to tell you, in all philosophical frankness, that I was born with a burning desire and the greatest curiosity to know, more as a way to get to…
Memoir
Without warning, on the 20th of April, 1749, at the end of the Passover Festival, Sunday, at about 17 hours [noon], I was kidnapped and taken away by force thanks to a false denunciation made against…