Showing Results 1 - 10 of 48
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Andreas Landesherr
Places:
Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1820–1821
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Friedrich Friedländer
Places:
Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1859
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
With every stone that was set in the new barn, another drop of life seemed to ebb from the wife of the randar or tavern keeper. When she looked out at the building, she often said that she would not…
Contributor:
Leopold Kompert
Places:
Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1848
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
My soul sighs, fate brings only trouble.
My spirit was lifted, and I grew bold.
I heard a voice: ‘Your poem is gold.
Who has learned to sing like you, Rachel?’
My spirit in turn replies: I’ve lost…
Contributor:
Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo
Places:
Trieste, Habsburg Empire (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1847
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Besides these, there are students of outstanding ability in their Torah study seated constantly in his presence—they are swifter than eagles and mightier than lions, each…
Contributor:
Ezekiel Paneth
Places:
Linsk/Lisko, Austrian Empire (Lisko, Ukraine)
Date:
1805
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I wish, then, to describe the four classes to which Jews today belong in order to derive therefrom the principal claim of this discussion, namely: to the extent that the Jews do not take advantage of…
Contributor:
Lazarus Bendavid
Places:
Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1793
Categories:
Restricted
Text
According to the workings of the natural order there are three periods through which each primordial nation passes from the time it comes into being until it passes from the scene and perishes:
- The…
Contributor:
Nachman Krochmal
Places:
Tarnopol, Austrian Empire (Ternopil, Ukraine)
Date:
1800-1840
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I have written this down in connection with all that befell us during that year five thousand five hundred and sixty-nine [1809] here, in our holy community of Pressburg. Now an omen of this had…
Contributor:
Moses Sofer
Places:
Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1809
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
“What you spend in honor of the holy days, the Lord will richly reward!” says the Talmud, and pious Pinchas granted everything his wife demanded. Clothes for the children and ornaments for herself…
Contributor:
Leopold Weisel
Places:
Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1847
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Almighty ruler of armies, you who reign mightily
In heaven and on earth, I raise my prayer to you
From the depths of a mother’s heart.
Turn your presence toward me
And hear me in your mercy.
Follow…
Contributor:
Fanny Neuda
Places:
Loschitz, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1855