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Eulogy for Empress Maria Theresa
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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…

Contributor:

Ezekiel Landau

Places:

Prag, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1780

Subjects:

Mourning, Leadership, Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Death, Politics

Categories:

Historical writing, Political Culture
Extremos y grandezas de Constantinopla (Glories and Grandeur of Constantinople)
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In the days when…

Contributor:

Jacob Cansino

Places:

Madrid, Spanish Empire (Madrid, Spain)

Date:

1638

Subjects:

Military, War, Monarchy, Muslim-Jewish relations, Death

Categories:

Historical writing
A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…

Contributor:

Zelig Kalmanovitch

Places:

Vilna, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Jewish identity, Genocide, Death

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Historical writing