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2. What was it that made for the peculiar position of the Jews in the Middle Ages and later, until emancipation came along? It was the ghetto, we are told and told again, which was at the root of…
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Max Weinreich
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1967
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Today is the eighth day since the evil tidings came that the crown has fallen from our head (Lam. 5:16). It was my obligation to see that we should immediately have arranged a great memorial service…
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Ezekiel Landau
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Prag, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1780
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I will speak with my heart while my soul is faint, when the spirit of my understanding wanders through the recesses of my worries. My thoughts surely ask me: What is this? And why is this? What is…
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Unknown
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1882
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Matthäus Merian
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1628
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Sunday, 15th of the aforementioned month [Elul; 10.9.1623]. The Sipahis [feudal cavalrymen] and the Janissaries [professional infantry corps] and all the king’s slaves and ministers came to speak with…
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Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1622–1624
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So since we are in the midst of writing a song,
We will write also about the destruction of the holy community of Kremzir,
Even though this happened five years before,
In the year 1643, on the 9th of…
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Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
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Kremzir, Holy Roman Empire (Kroměříž, Czech Republic)
Date:
1648
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Munich, Holy Roman Empire (Munich, Germany)
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1745
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In the year 5464 from the creation of the world. If I were to try to tell the travails and bitter tidings and troubles that we the community of Fez (may God guard it!) endured, time would run out and…
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Samuel Ibn Danan
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Fez, Kingdom of Morocco (Fes, Morocco)
Date:
1724
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Munich, Holy Roman Empire (Munich, Germany)
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1745
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This medal was issued in the Netherlands to commemorate the repeal of the 1745 expulsion of the Jewish community of Prague. Responding to appeals from foreign leaders, Maria Theresa (1717–1780), the…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1745