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And how crude he was with me! He wants to arrange with Papa to marry me! How do you like that? I’d like to meet the man who’ll force me to marry someone! No! No father can do that—I…
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Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
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Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (Wrocław, Poland)
Date:
1796
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1703
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Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa (1669–1749), the second wife of Don Francisco Lopes Suasso, was descended from a wealthy Portuguese New Christian family who fled the Iberian Peninsula and settled…
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Artist Unknown
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (The Hague, Netherlands)
Date:
1730s–1740s
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They distort the words of the living God. It is a clear Torah lesson, as the sages have taught: “Whosoever speculates on four things, a pity for him! He is as though he had not come into the world.”
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Tzvi Hirsch Ashkenazi
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1714
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Earlier on we have clearly shown that the animal soul does not consist of blood and how much less so the human soul, since the latter is an incorporeal substance, invisible and incorruptible, whereas…
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Samuel da Silva
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1623
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The house known today as the House of the Sun is a large stone structure next to the synagogue. But long, long ago it was called the Devil’s Head, and it was…
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Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Free Imperial City of Worms (Worms, Germany)
Date:
1696
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Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1683
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1780
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1792
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Wilhelmus Angenendt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1809