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[ . . . ] Some [Jewish] people have children who may be likened to seeds, others who can be likened to vegetables, and yet others, to thorns. When parents raise their children in the ways of Torah…
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Shaul Shoḥet
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1915/16
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Boris Schatz
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1911
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The little blue butterfly was born in the red bell of a morning glory. She had been a caterpillar before that and had lived for a while in a cocoon, but she could remember nothing about it.
She peeped…
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Anna Lesznai
Date:
1912
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My son, heed the discipline of your father,
And do not forsake the instruction of your mother;
For they are a graceful wreath upon your head,
A necklace about your throat.
My son, if sinners…
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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…
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Joseph Attias
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Livorno, Kingdom of Italy (Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1733
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Johannes Buxtorf
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Basel, Swiss Confederacy (Basel, Switzerland)
Date:
1661
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When bloodletting is done at the right time, and when there is need for it, it promotes the health of the person, as I shall write about, God willing. When bloodletting is…
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Issachar Baer Teller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1655
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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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[ . . . ] In the country as well as in the town, I lived in a petty-bourgeois environment where the principal effort was directed toward acquisition. In this respect, I cut myself off both from the…
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Leon Trotsky
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Alma Ata, USSR (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Büyükada, Turkey
Date:
1929
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Even in the past, some thirty to forty years ago, when Jewish life in Russia was still very conservative, there was a difference between those cities and towns located…
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Meir Berlin
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1933