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This enameled glass beaker, belonging to the Polin Burial Society in Bohemia, is a fine example of the melding of Jewish and Bohemian art forms. It features painted figures carrying a body toward a…
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Artist Unknown
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Poleň (Polin), Holy Roman Empire (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1691
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Mildred Lubritz Covert was born in uptown New Orleans in 1927 and ate a rich mix of eastern European, creole, and African American foods throughout her childhood. She later chronicled this cuisine in…
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Marcie Cohen Ferris
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Chapel Hill, United States of America
Date:
2005
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Behold, I am aged and my eyes are dim and my hands heavy and shaky, and at a time when my strength, enabling me to remain standing upon my watch, is ebbing away—with the yoke of the…
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Pinchas Katzenellenbogen
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Boskovice, Holy Roman Empire (Boskovice, Czech Republic)
Date:
1760
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Get a calf’s head, with the skin on, but cleaned from the hair. Half boil it; take all the meat off in square pieces; break the bones of the head, and boil them in some good veal and…
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Esther Levy
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1871
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Now, lo, I saw a dream and since then I am very feverish. May Iahmoliah attend to my welfare.
Now, if you wish, do not sell them. Let the children eat them. Lo, there do not remain any cucumbers.
Tran…
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Early 5th Century BCE
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This is the list of David’s warriors: Jashobeam son of Hachmoni, the chief officer; he wielded his spear against three hundred and slew them all on one occasion. Next to him was Eleazar son of…
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Biblical Period
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To/of the governor of the city.
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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When we were gathered together, we the undersigned, to negotiate the repair of fissures in our city, which is the renowned Fez, with the advice and consent of…
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The Sephardic Community of Fez
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Fez, Saadi Sultanate (Fes, Morocco)
Date:
1618
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1. When the leaders of the people assembled together, the heads of the holy community of Ludmir (Włodzimierz), in conjunction with all…
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The Assembly of Ludmir
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Ludmir, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Włodzimierz, Poland)
Date:
1602
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Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire (Augsburg, Germany)
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ca. 1690