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Contributor:
Bernard Picart
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1725
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In a dingy kitchen
Facing a Ghetto backyard
An old woman is chanting Jeremiah’s Lamentations,
Quaveringly,
Out of a Hebrew Bible.
The gaslight flares and falls . . .
This night,
Two thousand…
Contributor:
Alter Brody
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1918
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Dear Parents:
I hope my letter will ease your mind. You can now be reassured and send me one of the family to Charleston, South Carolina. This is the place to which, with God’s help, we will go after…
Contributor:
Rebecca Samuel
Places:
Petersburg, United States of America
Date:
ca. 1792
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Robert Frank
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1955
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“What you spend in honor of the holy days, the Lord will richly reward!” says the Talmud, and pious Pinchas granted everything his wife demanded. Clothes for the children and ornaments for herself…
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Leopold Weisel
Places:
Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1847
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Upon a lofty mountain ascent, O herald of Zion, raise your voice with strength, O herald of Jerusalem, raise your voice, fear not; say to the cities of Judah: “Behold your God” (Isaiah 40: 9).
Frien…
Contributor:
Joseph Hirsch Dünner
Places:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1905
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The Molad is Wednesday evening, 10 minutes and 9 halakim on 6 [6:10.9 pm]
Iyar 5675—April 1915—Taurus—(29 days)
[Hebrew Date]
[Day of the week]
[Christian Date]
[Islamic Date]
1st
Thursday
Se…
Contributor:
Eliezer Ya‘akov Podhorzer
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1914
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Ezra Dangur
Date:
1904
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Emanuel Eisler
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ca. 1880
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The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:
These are My fixed times, the fixed times of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as sacred occasions.
On six days work…
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