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Chapter 19
When Süss returned to his prison cell, he found his uncle waiting for him. In tears he fell into the arms of the dignified old man and told him everything that had happened to him. Rabbi…
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Marcus Lehmann
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Mainz, German Empire (Mainz, Germany)
Date:
1897
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“There are two synagogues of the German Jews, and one of the Portuguese, twenty-four cubits broad and forty-two long. Each one has its own management; thus the income of one is not mixed with that of…
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Moise Vita Cafsuto
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
ca. 1735
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Like a wooer and a husband
I devote myself to your faith
since being a husband does not imply
a courtly surrender.
Like a wooer I pursue your love
because I wish to merit
the privileges of a…
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Abraham Gómez Silveira
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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I wish, then, to describe the four classes to which Jews today belong in order to derive therefrom the principal claim of this discussion, namely: to the extent that the Jews do not take advantage of…
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Lazarus Bendavid
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Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1793
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The life and literary undertakings of Isaac Orobio de Castro are symbolic of the fate and fortunes of the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi diaspora in seventeenth-century western Europe. His passage…
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Yosef Kaplan
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1982
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Community. From the point of view of religious practices, the Jewish community of Hamadan is one of the least homogeneous of Persia. It is not unusual to find in the same family a mother who is a…
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Albert Confino
Places:
Qajar, Sublime State of Iran (Qajar Āb-e Bālā, Iran)
Date:
1908