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Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful of figure and beautiful of appearance (Gen. 29:17). Targum Onkelos renders this verse as “Leah’s eyes…
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Kalonimos Kalman Epstein
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Kraków, Free City of Cracow
(Kraków, Poland)
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1842
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Sebastian Münster
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Basel, Swiss Confederacy
(Basel, Switzerland)
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1541
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The secretary rises and begins to read out the indictment:“It has been nearly twenty years since Yiddish began to show signs of becoming a language, to stretch its limbs and demonstrate some forward…
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Sholem Aleichem
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1888
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Devorà Ascarelli
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1601
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Unknown
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16th Century
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In the Name of God, May We Endeavor and Succeed.
I Behold God before my Eyes at All Times.
A Dedication to My Master, My Father, May He Live Forever.
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Elisha ben Samuel
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1684
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It would not seem proper, most magnificent Lady, that now we are about to print the Bible in our Spanish tongue, translated from the Hebrew word for word—so rare a work never before known until our…
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Yom Tob Athias, Abraham Usque
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
(Ferrara, Italy)
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1553
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The heart is prized as the human body’s noblest and most important organ, for it is the first to feel the pain which any other part of the body…
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Samuel Usque
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
(Ferrara, Italy)
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1553
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To the Lilliputians and to the Giants
Translated and adapted from Jonathan Swift by Alexandre Benghiat.
The prince of that place, who saw and liked me, bought me from my master, and I was taken to…
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Alexander Benghiat
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1903–1904
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There’s a stale, sour stench: a miscellany of heaped-up vegetables and fruits, cheese, fried fish, sweaty bodies, thighs, urine, and belching drunks. The smell sneaks harsh but titillating into the…
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Meir Corona
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Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1939