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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…
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Rebecca Samuel
Places:
Petersburg, United States of America
Date:
ca. 1792
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To Hoshaiah. Your welfare (may DN seek after at all times).
Now, look after the children by yourself until Ahutab comes. Do not entrust them to others.
If their bread is ground, knead for them 1 qab,…
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ca. 475 BCE
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If we should lack nothing else than veils, it would be all right.
May peace and healthy days be your lot always; to you, my much beloved daughter, may you live long, you who are pious and virtuous…
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Reisel Landau
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1619
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My beloved son and daughter!
I am writing these lines, my dear children, in the vale of tears of…
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Elhanan Elkes
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1943
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Dear Brother:
It is an enchanting evening. The wind has been blowing steadily the whole day. It suddenly dropped at nightfall. All is still. There is no stir in the air. The world seems fast asleep. I…
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Sasson Shalom Dallal
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1949
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Dear Mo:
I se no way for you to keep Pesah at William Hanry thear fore you had batter come over hear the Sunday before than you neat not due any thing to your house to git the hamez out of your house…
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Aaron Hart
Places:
Trois-Rivières, Kingdom of Great Britain (Trois-Rivières, Canada)
Date:
1790
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December 6, 1913, Havana
To his Eminence Monsieur Haim Nahum, Chief Rabbi of Turkey [Ottoman Empire], Constantinople [Istanbul].
Monsieur Rabbi,
I have the honor of bringing the following facts to…
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Marco Bonomo
Places:
Havana, Cuba
Date:
1913
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[To my brother PN, your brother Islah.
It is well for me here]. May the gods seek after your welfare at all times. And now, . . . PN son of PN went to Syene and did/made . . . .
Behold, these are the…
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410–400 BCE
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Certainly, dearest parents, I know what is commonly the result of the influence of education and of misunderstood religion, but is it possible that you could hate your son because he harbors other…
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Michael Joseph Edler von Arnstein
Places:
Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1783
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Why should I write to you about myself? Nothing has happened in the meantime in my personal life. My son is still with me, as before. He is still an Extern. He knows the gymnasium [university…
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Yehoshu‘a Ḥana
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1909