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Text endorsing regulations concerning the playing of instrumental music and other entertainments, and the night-time bridal procession, drafted by me with the powerful endorsement of the sages—may…
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The Jewish Community of Salonika
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1654
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I often said to a younger girl friend: “If you are marrying without love, after all, do not talk to your husband. Please him as much as your nature can tolerate; do not argue with…
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Rahel Levin Varnhagen
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1799–1800
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A woman beautiful in every way
I give you—pedigreed, with every skill—
And all you want to know is what’s the dowry!
That’s not the way to think; that’s faulty judgment.
If you’d appraise her…
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Jacob Frances
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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The incident was as follows: A woman came before me from a backwater Jewish town weeping bitterly over the sins of her youth, as she had been unfaithful to her first husband before she married her…
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Unknown
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Holy Roman Empire (Moravia, Czech Republic)
Date:
1689
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[A coffee-houseFerrando, Don Alfonso and Guglielmo]No. i TrioFerrando My Dorabella couldn’tDo such a thing:Heaven made herAs faithful as she’s fair.GuglielmoFiordiligi simplyCouldn…
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Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1790
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My parents had been married for five years when I was born, the second child after my sister, and, as far back as I can remember, I never heard them quarreling. It is possible that they…
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Sasson Somekh
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2003