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The printing of books: began [lit. “was located”] in the city of Mainz, by a Christian man named Johannes Gutenberg of Strasbourg, and this was in the first year of the pious emperor, Friedrich, in…
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David Ganz
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Prague, Habsburg Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1592
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In the main portion of this work I spoke of the use of an electric light. Here I shall discuss the law of whether one is permitted to speak on Shabbat by means of a machine called a “telephone.”…
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Yitsḥak Shmelkes
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Peremyshliany, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Peremyshliany, Ukraine)
Date:
1888
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Meir Magino
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
1560
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This is what the episode of the Generation of the Dispersion was all about; that they were afraid of a Flood and accordingly sought to erect a tower up to the heavens. One has, however, to understand…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1820
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Alexander Baerwald
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(Israel, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1912