Showing Results 11 - 20 of 51
Restricted
Image
In 1860, the Austrian Jewish community commissioned a medal of appreciation for Franz Joseph to commemorate the emperor’s granting to Jews the right to own property within the Austrian Empire. On the…
Contributor:
Wenzel Seidan
Places:
Paris, Second French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1860
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Lot (puru), Assyria, 8th century BCE. The inscription identifies this as a lot (puru—the Akkadian form of Hebrew pur, the word used in Esther 3:7) that belonged to an Assyrian official named Yahalu…
Date:
Iron Age II, 9th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In the eponymate of Dayan-Ashur, on the 14th of Aiaru (Iyyar), I set out from Nineveh . . .
I set out from the Euphrates and approached Aleppo. They (i.e., the inhabitants of Aleppo) were afraid of…
Date:
853–824 BCE
Subjects:
Restricted
Text
The Parnassim of the Kehillat Kodesh dei Tedeschi (Ashkenaz), Moise di Tardiola and . . . . [blank] give full authority to Rabbi Azriel to make taqqanot (ordinances or statutes):
- All members must pray…
Contributor:
The Tedeschi (German) Congregation of Venice
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1541
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
To the Most Serene Prince and to the Most Honorable and Wise Senators of the Venetian Republic
Free Wisdom befits a Free Republic, most Serene Prince, most honorable Senators, whom Freedom of their…
Contributor:
Isaac Cardoso
Places:
Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
1673
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I have always backed off from the word.
In the Thirties Europe meant French. But was it only then? Not in earlier centuries? A bloody lesson learned that Europe was Balmazújváros as well as Notre…
Contributor:
Ottó Orbán
Places:
Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1978
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In their glory days during the Renaissance, the king’s fools occupied a privileged place at court: dressed in sumptuous garments comparable in every detail to those of the kingdom’s great, in scarlet…
Contributor:
Pierre Birnbaum
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1992
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Sensitive Content
During my first few years as the lone Prog M. P., I found myself confronted by a series of vicious laws designed to undermine civil rights and to intensify discrimination…
Contributor:
Helen Suzman
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1993
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I—a Jewess—am by definition not a member of the species, or: why should a Jewess not have problems with public assistance and with her children? The postwar German Jew, to the extent that such a being…
Contributor:
Esther Dischereit
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1994
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
We have convened this conference for lamentation and soul searching. Before I begin my remarks, I wish to make a heartfelt appeal from here to the responsible people in the Left camp: for G-d’s sake…
Contributor:
Yehuda Amital
Places:
Alon shvut, Palestine
Date:
1995