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Miriam Steinberg of Highland Park, Illinois, would never think of making her weekly challah without first separating some dough, reciting a blessing over it, and then burning it in the oven, in…
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Joan Nathan
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2004
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Sephardic cooking in Salonica was based, until the Greek occupation of 1912, on sesame seed oil, which in the Judeo-Spanish dialect was called by the name of azeite de giungili…
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Michael Molho
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1940
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Greetings, Islah.
Now, I shall dispatch legumes tomorrow. Meet the boat tomorrow on Sabbath. Lest, if they get lost, by the life of YHH, I swear that I will take your life. Do not rely on Meshullemeth…
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ca. 475 BCE
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Michael Müllner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
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Early 17th Century
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Artist Unknown
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Central Europe)
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18th Century
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It should be known that after her immersion, every woman should persuade her husband and see to it that he study before he lies with her. And so we find it written regarding Boaz, “And Boaz ate…
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Benjamin Slonik
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1577
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It is often said that among the Gentiles there are men of noble lineage whose features and outward appearance show that nothing but the purest and most refined aristocratic blood…
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Yehudah Burla
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1933
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On the eve of the Sabbath I am always tormented by the dense sorrow of memory. In the past on these evenings, my grandfather’s yellow beard caressed the volumes of Ibn Ezra. My old grandmother, in her…
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Isaac Babel
Date:
1924
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Marilyn Hirsh
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New York, United States of America
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1986