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Artist Unknown
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Oran, French Algeria
(Oran, Algeria)
Date:
1847
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An Explanation of the Plot of this Book
Naʿma is the daughter of a caïd of one of the regions in Iraq, and Nuʿman is her paternal first cousin, whom she married while her father was still alive. When…
Contributor:
Abraham Daninos
Places:
Algiers, French Algeria
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1847
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I want to recount a beautiful tale. I ask that the men relax. Listen, and see how marvelous it is how merciful God restores justice for us.
Jacob:
He said to his son, I wanted to send you to find out…
Contributor:
Moses Samuel Konfino
Places:
Bucharest, Ottoman Empire
(Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1862
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A Play by Molière in One Act of Sixteen Scenes[Carlo, Esterina]Carlo:Is there any news, Esterina? Do you have any advice for me?Esterina:Why do you want advice? I have a lot of news for you…
Contributor:
Anonymous
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1873
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Terah’s wife is pregnant
day after day she turned pale,
she already knew what she had
but she did not reveal it to her husband.
One day she went out to fields and vineyards,
she found a cavern and…
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Anonymous
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(Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia)
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ca. 1800
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the voice of prayer and the voice of song given in
the house of the lord elohei yisrael
the holy congregations of the sepharadim
may the lord comfort us
in this great city of amsterdam
from the day…
Contributor:
David Franco Mendes
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1792
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The Gerush (Hebrew for “expulsion”) synagogue in Bursa, Turkey, dates back to the early sixteenth century and is unique in its dual-ark design; one upper section is located in the women’s gallery…
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Bursa, Ottoman Empire
(Bursa, Turkey)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…
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Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire
(Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Date:
1581
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Artist Unknown
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Bordeaux, Kingdom of France
(Bordeaux, France)
Date:
1747
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Let us return to our first matter, because these two territories, which we discussed, Masterdam [Amsterdam] and Igeltiera [England], in all of them they follow the Sephardic rite from the tribe of…
Contributor:
Sasson Ḥay Castiel
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1700