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Letter from Rebecca Samuel to Her Parents
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Dear Parents: I hope my letter will ease your mind. You can now be reassured and send me one of the family to Charleston, South Carolina. This is the place to which, with God’s help, we will go after…

Contributor:

Rebecca Samuel

Places:

Petersburg, United States of America

Date:

ca. 1792

Subjects:

Migration, Economic life, Family, Jewish identity, Holidays, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter to Zalman Shneour: On Children’s Education
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Why should I write to you about myself? Nothing has happened in the meantime in my personal life. My son is still with me, as before. He is still an Extern. He knows the gymnasium [university…

Contributor:

Yehoshu‘a Ḥana Ravnitski

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Children, Jewish identity, Education, Family, Holidays, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters