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Part One, in which are shown all the rules necessary for understanding language, how to compose and write therein prose and verse, with the appropriate elegance and measure.
To the Reader:
Although I…
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Moses Gideon Abudiente
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1633
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The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1639
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The great value of prayer is well known. It is formulated in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings, and explained further in the words of our rabbis of blessed memory. It is called the service of…
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The Council of the Four Lands
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Lublin, Poland)
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1617
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“That which is well known needs no proof,” and the root cause is the skilled operating of the printing shop in the holy community of Żółkiew [Zhovkva], may the Rock preserve it, which was established…
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The Council of the Four Lands
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1699
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1718/19 and 1732/33
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Solomon Pinḥasoff
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1908
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Blasio Ugolino, Giovanni Cattini
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1744
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God, blessed be He, knew very well that the people of Israel would be scattered among the nations and that most of them would not be able to understand the holy tongue [Hebrew]. Therefore our sages…
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Ḥayim Druker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1711
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Judah Monis
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Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies
(Cambridge, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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David de Aron Uziel Cardoso
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1714