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[Greetings, PN,] from [PN].
[No]w, I [sen]t to you, saying: “Do not dispatch to me bread without it being sealed.”
Lo, all the jars are impure. Behold, the bread which [you]
dispatch[ed] to me…
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Early 5th Century BCE
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[ . . . ] In the early autumn of 1918 we entered a new circle of Bolshevik hell, the period of mass Red Terror. The murder of Uritskii and…
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Simon Dubnov
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Riga, Latvia
Date:
1934–1935
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Miriam Steinberg of Highland Park, Illinois, would never think of making her weekly challah without first separating some dough, reciting a blessing over it, and then burning it in the oven, in…
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Joan Nathan
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2004
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Sephardic cooking in Salonica was based, until the Greek occupation of 1912, on sesame seed oil, which in the Judeo-Spanish dialect was called by the name of azeite de giungili…
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Michael Molho
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1940
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The Holy Community of Altona, Friday, 29 Marheshvan 5621[14 November 1860]
To my dear friend, father of my son-in-law, the distinguished rabbi, our Teacher, R. Shemaryahu Zuckerman, may his…
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Jacob Ettlinger
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
1860
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I have always had the illusion that my face did not clearly betray the calumny of my Jewish heritage. I have always taken care to conceal carefully the bitter secret that my father was a rabbi and my…
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Asser Kleerekoper
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1918
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Now, lo, I saw a dream and since then I am very feverish. May Iahmoliah attend to my welfare.
Now, if you wish, do not sell them. Let the children eat them. Lo, there do not remain any cucumbers.
Tran…
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Early 5th Century BCE
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Mordkhe Spektor [1858–1925] was the “honorary chair” of the “Society of Gluttons and Drunkards.” Though he had not been elected to this “post,” everyone felt that Spektor was the singular candidate…
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Elkhonen Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1937
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The Street was my father’s life. He was a commission merchant in Washington Market, contracting for crops from farmers in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, California, Texas, and just about everywhere…
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Mimi Sheraton
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1979
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This day [December 29, 1778] the British troops, consisting of about 3,500 men, including two battalions of Hessians under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the Seventy-first…
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Mordecai Sheftall
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Savannah, British America and the British West Indies (Savannah, United States of America)
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ca. 1778–1779