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All things I can endure, save one. The bare, blank room where is no sun; The parcelled hours; the pallet hard; The dreary faces here within; The outer women’s cold regard; The Pastor’s iterated “sin”…

Contributor:

Amy Levy

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1884

Subjects:

Christianity, Women, Sin, Prostitution, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
Responsum: On Prostitutes’ Gifts to the Synagogue
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Concerning the matter of prostitutes from the daughters of Israel—far be it from our straight paths—who dedicate a new ark curtain or Torah scroll cover, it is permissible from a legal point of view…

Contributor:

Raphael Aaron Ben Simeon

Places:

Alexandria, Egypt

Date:

1907/8

Subjects:

Prostitution, Piety, Sin, Adolescence, Women, Politics, Responsa

Categories:

Political Culture, Responsa