Showing Results 71 - 80 of 98
Public Access
Text
God be praised, it is now a year since we began printing our supplement to Ha-melits, the Kol mevaser, the world’s first newspaper in plain Yiddish. At first, many people ridiculed us, but time has…
Contributor:
Urye Kahan
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1863
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
With God’s help I set myself the aim,
And with God’s aid I hope to achieve the same.
The holy book of Psalms in Taytsh [Yiddish] to make known,
Hoping that all shall praise and extol God, blessed be…
Contributor:
Royzl bas Joseph Levi
Places:
Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1586
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
No Jew shall be allowed to cause to be printed in this city or outside it in these realms Hebrew or Ladino books or [books] in any other language without express permission of the Mahamad [board of…
Contributor:
The Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London
Places:
London, Kingdom of England
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1693
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Moses Frankfurt said: The holy Torah tells us that the Holy One commanded Moses to interpret the Torah very plainly (Deuteronomy 27:8), to explain it clearly in seventy languages so that all nations…
Contributor:
David de Aron Uziel Cardoso, Moses Frankfurt
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1719/20
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
The Book of Me‘am lo‘ez is the explication of the entire Hebrew Bible in Ladino, explaining the way of life which a person must lead as the sacred law commanded, and also to know about all that…
Contributor:
Jacob Huli
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1730
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
When the world wearies of day’s golden egg,
Shabrang, the dark bay steed, appears
From under the crow’s wings…
Contributor:
Khwājah Bukhārā’īā
Places:
Bukhara, Khanate of Bukhara
(Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
Date:
1606
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Grandfather Anshel wasn’t at all surprised when Momik shared his secret and asked him to help. Momik of course knew Grandfather didn’t understand any of this, but he wanted to be completely fair so he…
Contributor:
David Grossman
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1986
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I love the red and blue electric trains. For twenty-five cents they go from Puente Hierro all the way to Sabana Grande. I notice that some streets have high sidewalks with side rails and stairs at…
Contributor:
Alicia Freilich
Places:
Date:
1987
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Mark Podwal
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
Menaḥem Mann Amelander (died before 1767) and Eliezer Soesman (Zusman) Rudelsum published the volumes of Sefer magishe minḥah between 1725 and 1729 in Amsterdam. Following the example of Sefer ha…
Contributor:
Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch, Meir Cohen Belinfante, Isaac Siprut, Anonymous
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1725