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In the days when…
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Jacob Cansino
Places:
Madrid, Spanish Empire
(Madrid, Spain)
Date:
1638
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I have found written in the handwriting of the sage, our master, the crown and glory that rests upon our heads, the perfect sage and excellent judge, who is modest and happy in all his affairs. His…
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Ibn Danan Family
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Fez, Kingdom of Morocco
(Fes, Morocco)
Date:
1616
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In the year 5121 (1361 CE), Sultan Murad I conquered the great city of Adrianople—called Edirne by the Turks and Endirne by the Jews…
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Salomon Rosanes
Places:
Sofia, Ottoman Empire
(Sofia, Bulgaria)
Date:
1914
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In the age of every ruler, old and new, time and again some affliction befell us. But this one was…
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Bābāī ibn Lutf
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Kashan, Safavid Empire
(Kashan, Iran)
Date:
First Half of the 17th Century
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Come, O heart, and proclaim a flood upon the world; no…
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Bābāī ibn Farhād
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Kashan, Afsharid Dynasty
(Kashan, Iran)
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Mid– to Late 18th Century
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The city modernizes more and more. One hardly sees those baggy, dark, unsightly breeches of old, the ones that Muslims, Christians, and poor Jews still wore in the middle of the last century. Until…
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Joseph Nehama
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1914
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I was born in Tunisia, in Tunis, a few steps from that city’s large ghetto. My father, a harness maker, was somewhat pious, naturally somewhat so, as were all men of his trade and his station in life…
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Albert Memmi
Places:
London, United Kingdom
(Paris, France)
Date:
1962
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Now since the episode of the earthquake has already been mentioned, in order that all those who come after us should be aware of it, I shall place on record what occurred in relation to the earthquake…
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Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1688
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In the year 5464 from the creation of the world. If I were to try to tell the travails and bitter tidings and troubles that we the community of Fez (may God guard it!) endured, time would run out and…
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Samuel Ibn Danan
Places:
Fez, Kingdom of Morocco
(Fes, Morocco)
Date:
1724
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And it came to pass in the days of Sultan Murad [IV], King of Turkey, may his majesty be exalted, in the third year of his reign, which is the year 5385 from creation [1625], the upright prince…
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Unknown
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1627