Showing Results 1 - 4 of 4
Public Access
Text
Sensitive Content
The sultan thought for a moment and said, “I know, Jew, that your heart is not devoid of intelligence. After all, you want to live a long life in your household with your children. So, do not…
Contributor:
Avraham S. Friedberg
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1893
Subjects:
Restricted
Text
In her death agony—which lasted no more than an instant or two—Nazira Mualdeb reviewed the months preceding her granddaughter Alcira’s wedding and a torrent of ghostly images spontaneously abandoned…
Contributor:
Teresa Porzecanski
Places:
Montevideo, Uruguay
Date:
1994
Restricted
Text
The year 5573 (1813) was a leap year (in the Jewish calendar). On the twenty-fourth of Nisan, the Sabbath right after Passover, after midday, the skies became overcast and…
Contributor:
Jonah ben Gabriel
Places:
Arbil, Ottoman Empire (Erbil, Iraq)
Date:
ca. 1843
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
So appreciate your vigor in the days of your youth, before those days of sorrow come and those years arrive of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before sun and light and moon and…
Places:
Land of Israel (Israel)
Date:
Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE