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This diagram of the cosmos is from a treatise on astronomy, Sefer mareh ha-ofanim (The Appearance of the Heavenly Beings), by Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor. The treatise was mostly a translation of…
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Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor, Artist Unknown
Places:
Mantua, Italy
Date:
16th Century
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Now the daughter of the King of the Kittim, on hearing this, became highly enraged, and she said, “Is there any room to defend the cause of these people who were lacking in wisdom and set down a…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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[ . . . ] 2. When you stroll along the riverbank, you find an entire plain filled with reeds and bulrushes, all of which are standing erect, one adjacent to the other, and none of them…
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Menachem Mendel Lefin
Places:
Satanów, Russian Empire (Sataniv, Ukraine)
Date:
1808
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One of the most widespread concerns among the intellectual classes of the present period is that of the decline of the race, and to remedy this decline they demand…
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Gina Lombroso
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Torino, Kingdom of Italy (Turin, Italy)
Date:
1904
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The rule of the aforementioned fifth and sixth items, which concern going to bed and rising. It is stated and summarized from what has been said in the past, that sleep being so harmful…
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Moses Almosnino
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1564