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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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[ . . . ] Some [Jewish] people have children who may be likened to seeds, others who can be likened to vegetables, and yet others, to thorns. When parents raise their children in the ways of Torah…
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Shaul Shoḥet
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1915/16
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On Saturdays, and on unusually busy days when my father could not take the time to come home to the noon dinner, it became my duty to take his midday meal down to him, very carefully packed in a large…
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Edna Ferber
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New York City, United States of America
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1939
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Rumors of my grandfather’s plan to depart for Palestine reached his wife and children shortly after the Russian revolution of 1905. [ . . . ]
The…
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Ita Kalish
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New York City, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1965
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Those who seized the youths to put them into the army in the city where I was born, desired to have, as a residence for themselves, a house adjacent to the one in which my father…
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Abraham Ber Gottlober
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1880
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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
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1783
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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, United States of America)
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ca. 1778–1779
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I, Don Pedro Alberto de Launay Cau, gentleman of the Royal House of King Charles II, in charge of the heraldry and chronicles of his Spanish realms, of provincial arms, and, earlier, of his estates…
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Alberto de Launay
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Brussels, Holy Roman Empire
(Brussels, Belgium)
Date:
1676
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I will print this book in ink as a remembrance and a sign, a memorial for my dear children. For now I will reveal their strength with words, as a reminder for them and their children…
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Judah Peretz
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1712
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Whereas it is true and certain that the Lady Simcha—may she be blessed above women in the tent—daughter of the honorable and exalted R. Hefetz Conforte—may his soul repose in Paradise—summoned us, the…
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Simcha Conforte
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Skopje, Ottoman Empire
(Skopje, North Macedonia)
Date:
1730