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This story admittedly took place a long time ago and furthermore in a far-off land—in England, in fact. Yet in spite of everything, it is still important and worthy of being…
Contributor:
Isaac Meyer Dik
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1889
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These illustrated pages are from a manuscript copy of Sefer goralot (Book of Lots), a treatise on geomancy, which was a method of divination popular in the medieval world. The text was attributed…
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Abraham Ibn Ezra
Places:
Córdoba, Spanish Empire (Córdoba, Spain)
Date:
18th Century
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Moses Frankfurt said: The holy Torah tells us that the Holy One commanded Moses to interpret the Torah very plainly (Deuteronomy 27:8), to explain it clearly in seventy languages so that all nations…
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David de Aron Uziel Cardoso, Moses Frankfurt
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1719/20
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And thus was finished the book Petah Debarai
In the name of the living God my redeemer and rock
In the year of the creation 306
On the 29th day of Tishri
Edited by the Hebrew grammarian
Elijah the…
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Cornelio Adelkind
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1546
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The problem of creating a body of translated literature in Yiddish is very important and must be solved systematically. This serves the interests of our original [Yiddish] literature best.
[I will…
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Moyshe Litvakov
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918–1919