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Some time ago I came here to the holy congregation of Amsterdam and I visited the schools of the Sephardim a number of times. There I saw “giants [in scholarship]: tender children as small as…
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Shabbetai Meshorer Bass
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1680
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Question: . . . When Rabbi Joseph Ottolenghi was visiting this land, he told me that he printed sixteen megillot on parchment prepared for this purpose [i.e., to be used for the scrolls—Ed.]. When I…
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Shalom Italia, Moses Provenzali
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Mantua, Holy Roman Empire (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1560
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz
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Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1749
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Now, my dear friends, do you see what you’re doing? The Holy Days indulged in arrogant boasting, in envy and hatred and warfare. Hanukkah tried to fight them all and carry the day…
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Zalman Sofer
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Oldendorf, Holy Roman Empire (Oldendorf, Germany)
Date:
1517
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Frankfurt (Oder), Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
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1831
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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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[A coffee-houseFerrando, Don Alfonso and Guglielmo]No. i TrioFerrandoMy Dorabella couldn’tDo such a thing:Heaven made herAs faithful as she’s fair.GuglielmoFiordiligi simplyCouldn…
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Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1790
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Artist Unknown
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Buda, Holy Roman Empire (Buda, Hungary)
Date:
1541
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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705
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How good and agreeable is it, when brothers live in one house, and how much more father and son
Peace to my beloved, dear and darling son, whose soul is bound to my soul, the intimate friend, the…
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Eliezer Morawczyk
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Tymbarg, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tymbark, Poland)
Date:
1588