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Artist Unknown
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17th Century
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Shalom Italia
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1654
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The people were hardworking, sprightly, and seasoned. They sailed all the way to Danzig and Memel and back, and knew the worth of merchandise as well as of people. The Jewish population made a living…
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Mark Vishniak
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1939
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May the bridegroom rejoice and the roses multiply, let sorrows fade away and let the young, old, and simple-minded understand. May the grooms be joyful with strophic poetry (shirot) and songs (renanot…
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Saliḥ ibn Yaḥya
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Sanaʽa, Ottoman Empire (Sanaa, Yemen)
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1717–1740
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I’ve been told that years ago a rich man lived in Mainz as a leader of the Jewish community. He had a beautiful wife, who, however, died, leaving him their son. A short time…
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Unknown
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ca. 1520
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Listen, my friends, pay attention!
Be silent, do not restrain me,
Nor say, “That fellow Amīānā’s been unfaithful,
His heart and tongue in two directions pull;
If not, why did he leave his native…
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Amīnā
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Kashan, Ottoman Empire (Kashan, Iran)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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The terrace of the large coffee house in Berlin was almost empty, save for the occasional occupied table. The season had already turned autumnal. The weather was unpredictable, and the air carried a…
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Hersh Dovid Nomberg
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1925–1926
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arn-volf—parnes khoydesh (chairman of the kahal, the community council)
beyle—his wife
stere—his daughter
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first and second Dayen (judges of the bes…
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Moyshe Kulbak
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1936
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Hannah the blind woman was told before her wedding that her future husband was a widower in the tobacco business; at first they also assured her that this widower had been left with no…
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Jacob Steinberg
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1922
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He married Sonechka early, out of love. He loved her passionately only for the first two years. Then he lost interest but didn’t even notice it. He wasn’t thinking about love and women as a rule. He…
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Semyon Yushkevich
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922