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To Sir Moses Montefiore, from Oro, the widow of Hayim Arieh, 1866
[Oh] one who gives light to the earth and to them that dwell thereon, who is…
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Oro Arieh
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1866
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These high officials were not accustomed to wearing European-style shirts. When they decided to dress in the European style, they asked a certain ham, Daniel Andjel, whose shop at the Women’s Market…
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Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1881–1902
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And in the City of London we went to the Fort which is called the Tower, and there I saw lions and an eagle one hundred years old and a great snake from India and another snake and other wild beasts…
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Ḥayim Joseph David Azulai
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Hebron, Ottoman Empire (Hebron, West Bank)
Date:
Second Half of the 19th Century
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How great is the benefit of the printing houses, for thanks to the power of the printing press, the Torah is enhanced everywhere in the world. The rabbis are certainly making the effort to produce…
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Judah Papo
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Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia)
Date:
1870
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Artist Unknown
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Angora, Ottoman Empire (Ankara, Turkey)
Date:
1826
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[Fabres alone]
Fabres [Standing, reading the newspaper La Libre parole whose title appears in such big letters that it can be seen by the audience]:“Our information was confirmed in…
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Jacques Loria
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Tatar-Bazardjik, Ottoman Empire (Pazardzhik, Bulgaria)
Date:
1903
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I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…
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Joseph Nehama
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1913
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If there is one branch of study that is entirely neglected in our schools it is the history of our forefathers from the time of their dispersion across the globe until the present. . . . [True,] our…
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Mercado Joseph Covo
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1892
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This satirical political cartoon, printed in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the Ladino socialist periodical El Pueblo, mocks Theodor Herzl’s 1902 visit to Istanbul, while also indicating the brutal policies of…
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Artist Unknown
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Ottoman Empire (Bulgaria, Bulgaria)
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1902
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911
Dear Mrs. N.,
I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…
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Bertha Pappenheim
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1911