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The Jew
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Moses, from whose loins I sprung, Lit by a lamp in his blood Ten immutable rules, a moon For mutable lampless men. The blonde, the bronze, the ruddy, With the same heaving blood, Keep tide to the…

Contributor:

Isaac Rosenberg

Places:

France, France

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Piety, Sin, Philosophy, Antisemitism, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
Magdalen
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All things I can endure, save one. The bare, blank room where is no sun; The parcelled hours; the pallet hard; The dreary faces here within; The outer women’s cold regard; The Pastor’s iterated “sin”…

Contributor:

Amy Levy

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1884

Subjects:

Christianity, Women, Sin, Prostitution, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
The Pagan Rabbi
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When I heard that Isaac Kornfeld, a man of piety and brains, had hanged himself in the public park, I put a token in the subway stile and journeyed out to see the tree. [ . . . ][ . . . ] On the day…

Contributor:

Cynthia Ozick

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Date:

1966

Subjects:

Piety, Wisdom, Mysticism, Sin, Death, Fiction

Categories:

Fiction
The Earliest Extant Minute Books of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel in New York, 1728–1786
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At a meeting of the Elders and Parnassim this day Mr Heyman Levy paid the fine for refusing serving Parnass Last year, it was at the same time voted by…

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Congregation Shearith Israel of New York

Places:

New York, British America and the British West Indies (New York City, United States of America)

Date:

1757–1758

Subjects:

Synagogue, Communal organizations, Sin, Finance, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Lists & catalogues, Reference works

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