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The Jewish Community of Prague
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1702
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Temerl bat Hirsch Perlhefter
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1685/6
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Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724) was the chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, a court Jew, and Hapsburg financier. His grave in the Viennese Seegasse cemetery is marked with an elaborately decorated…
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1724
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[ . . . ] 5. When one wishes to go to the synagogue, he should say, “I will go to the synagogue for the sake of the unification of the presence of the Holy One and to raise it from its fall,” as…
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Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
17th Century
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At the beginning of Purim, after evening prayer near the time when it gets dark, the charity warden brings with him an assortment of candles that are painted and nice looking, and he…
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Yuspa Shamash, Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
Date:
17th Century
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I stayed a long time in Hanau because of the heavy burden laid upon me from teaching youth. Although this is a labor performed for the sake of Heaven, it is nonetheless the case that whoever pleases…
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Judah Mehler Reutlinger
Places:
Bingen, Holy Roman Empire
(Bingen am Rhein, Germany)
Date:
1651
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I had been living in tranquility in my home, refreshed in my sanctuary, my palace, in the holy congregation of Prague for some twenty-eight years after they had chosen me from the assembly to be a…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1645
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1613
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27. On the eve of the Sabbath they light the oven in the home of the beadle, where they bake cakes and roast what is required for the Sabbath. They also boil the pots for the needs of…
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Yuspa Shamash
Places:
Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
Date:
17th Century
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5323 [1562]: King Maximilian, may he be exalted, came here, to Prague, on Monday the 6th of Tishri [5 September], and he was crowned on Hoshanah Rabba [the last day of Sukkot—20 September]. In that…
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Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1615