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Louis Gilrod, David Meyerowitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911
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Eddie Cantor, Harry Ruby
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918
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Eddie Cantor, Harry Ruby
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1918
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[May] your mornings [be] blessed,
[May] your life [be] long,
[May] your enemies [be] shrouded, dead,
[May] your [hot] breakfasts [be] poured, cooled.
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The Jews of Zakho, Kurdistan
Places:
Zakho, Ottoman Empire (Zakho, Iraq)
Date:
17th Century
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In the words of this honest song,
Many pious Jews will delight.
Women and children, young men and young women,
This honest song will please the heart of every Jewish child.
In all your…
Contributor:
Jacob Tausk
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1666
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The day my heart was troubled doubly,
By your love, O crown unto my head,
Delight and joy were mine beside the sheepfolds,
When your beauteous traits were joined to me.
Lovely are your dancing…
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Solomon de Oliveyra
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
17th Century
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I’m in a rage, so angry that I don’t know what to do
because of what just happened when I went out with a few
good friends to take a walk in town, this lovely Sabbath day.
We joined a crowd of rowdy…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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Which tells how a certain man took up with a prostitute in Hamburg, his first wife hearing of this came from Poland, how he was forced to give her a writ of divorce and this almost cost him his life…
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Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
Date:
1675
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Like a wooer and a husband
I devote myself to your faith
since being a husband does not imply
a courtly surrender.
Like a wooer I pursue your love
because I wish to merit
the privileges of a…
Contributor:
Abraham Gómez Silveira
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm
that draws to you life’s greatest joys.
Rounded like a bow, that brow,
or like a moon in half eclipse.
Your eye, beside it, is a pool,
all sparkle, like a…
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Joseph Tsarfati
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
Early 16th Century