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[ . . . ] And when a woman must go out, she should not push through the men and should keep her distance from large groups of men, since this is a great lewdness, and she should not go out…
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Moses Yerushalmi
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1596
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Cigarettes! Cigarettes!
My voice rings through the streets
With eyes overcast, cloudy—
Buy! Buy! Buy!
Hunting foxes—Cossacks ride—
With horseshoes like scythes—
And cut down sounds like sheaves:
Buy…
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Malka Lee
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New York City, United States of America
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1925–1926
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The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate
Women if you want to realize yourselves—you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval—all your pet illusions must be…
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Mina Loy
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
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1914
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Grandma Rekhl—my mother’s mother, whose name the members of the household and the people of the town all pronounced with exactness: Rekhl precisely with an “e,”…
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Ḥayim Tchemerinsky
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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To Build a Fire
Measuring
Scalloped Apples
Coffee
Setting the Table
Washing Dishes
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Lizzie Black Kander
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Milwaukee, United States of America
Date:
1901
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These are the conditions for a proper wife so that she will be cherished by her husband, so that he will not come to set his…
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Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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1712
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King David was old, advanced in years. Though covered in bedclothes, he could not get warm. They searched the land of Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abischag the Shunammite, who was…
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André Spire
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1925
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If I had to pick one defining moment in my Iranian life, it would be 5:00 a.m. one Friday in the fall of 1968. I was fifteen. Normally I woke to the sounds of a peddler selling green almonds and fava…
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Farideh Goldin
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Norfolk, United States of America
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2003
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In 1913 a Jewish girls’ school in Vilna called Yehudiyah, which provided supplementary education for girls aged seven to eighteen, published a publicity pamphlet in Yiddish…
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Paula Hyman
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New York, United States of America
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1995
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In the beginning, the Lord God formed Adam and Lilith from the dust of the ground and breathed into their nostrils the breath of life. Created from the same source, both having been formed from the…
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Judith Plaskow
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Boston, United States of America
Date:
1979