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In the days when…
Contributor:
Jacob Cansino
Places:
Madrid, Spanish Empire
(Madrid, Spain)
Date:
1638
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Israel David Luzzatto
Places:
Trieste, Habsburg Empire
(Trieste, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1775
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The new Rabbi pleased everybody, because he was beyond all doubt a righteous man. I was then a boy of twelve. My father received two letters from Rabbi Yukel on the subject of a good match for me in…
Contributor:
Ber of Bolechów
Places:
Bolechow, Habsburg Empire
(Bolekhiv, Ukraine)
Date:
ca. 1790–1800
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What would our ancestors have done if they had seen a Jewish community appointing a prayer-reader and a rabbi for themselves dressed in the vestments of a Christian priest, and setting up an idol in…
Contributor:
Akiva Joseph Schlesinger
Places:
Ungvár, Habsburg Empire
(Uzhgorod, Ukraine)
Date:
1864
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This synagogue structure contains stunning samples of wood painting and folk motifs (including verses, images of Jerusalem, animals, and flowers). The panels were decorated by Eliezer Zusman, an…
Places:
Unterlimpurg, Habsburg Empire
(Unterlimpurg, Germany)
Date:
1738/9